US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY on Jan. 13 for "Image encoding/decoding method and device using same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,449, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea) and UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device using same" was invented by Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Soo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin woong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Gwang Hoon Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Kyung Yong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The image decoding method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: determini...