ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,741, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea) and University-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for setting reference picture index of temporal merging candidate" was invented by Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Gwang Hoon Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Kyung Yong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sang Min Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Soo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jin Woong Kim (Wonju-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trad...