US Patent Issued to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY on March 11 for "Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding images" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,369, issued on March 11, was assigned to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding images" was invented by Ki Baek Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for encoding/decoding images according to the present invention may configure a prediction mode candidate group on a screen of a target block, determine a reference pixel for a prediction mode on the screen of the target block, perform at least one of filtering and interpolation on the reference pixel, and perform prediction on the screen of the target block on the basis of the pr...