ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,705, issued on Sept. 9, 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 encoding/decoding image using geometrically modified reference picture" was invented by Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Gwang Hoon Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Tae Hyun Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Dae Young Lee (Ansan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent...