US Patent Issued to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 27 for "Image encoding/decoding method and device for a spatial merge candidate derived from a spatially adjacent block of the target block" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,961, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device for a spatial merge candidate derived from a spatially adjacent block of the target block" was invented by Ki Baek Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding and decoding method and device are disclosed. The method includes configuring a motion information candidate list of a target block, selecting a candidate index from the list, deriving an offset for adjusting a motion vector, and recovering a motion vector of the target block based on a predicted motion vec...