US Patent Issued to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 25 for "Image data encoding/decoding method and apparatus" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,261, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image data encoding/decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Ki Baek Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for decoding an image. A method includes receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding the image; dividing a first coding block into a plurality of second coding blocks; generating a prediction block of a second coding block based on syntax information obtained from the bitstream; and reconstructing the second coding block based on the prediction block and a residual block...