US Patent Issued to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 28 for "Image data encoding/decoding method and apparatus" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,854, issued on Jan. 28, 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 (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding an image, includes obtaining at least one offset for a picture, deriving a variable for scaling for the picture based on the at least one offset, and performing inter prediction based on the variable for scaling for the picture. The at least one offset is defined with a direction of scaling."

The patent was filed on Nov. 6, 2023, under Application No. 18/502,418.

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