US Patent Issued to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY on March 4 for "Method and apparatus for reconstructing 360-degree image according to projection format" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,930, issued on March 4, was assigned to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for reconstructing 360-degree image according to projection format" was invented by Ki Baek Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for image data encoding/decoding. A method for decoding a 360-degree image includes the steps of: receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding a 360-degree image; generating a prediction image by making reference to syntax information obtained from the received bitstream; adding the generated prediction image to a residual image obt...