ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,981, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method, apparatus and storage medium for image encoding/decoding using subpicture" was invented by Gun Bang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Woong Lim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are a method, an apparatus and a storage medium for performing encoding/decoding on an image using a subpicture. A picture may be partitioned into various units such as subpictures and slices, and various syntax elements and structures may be used to specify the units. In an embodiment, there is a method f...