ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,638, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Image encoding/decoding method and device, and recording medium for storing bitstream" was invented by Woong Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Gun Bang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and a recording medium storing a bitstream. The image decoding method according to the present invention includes: deriving slice mode information for at least one slice comprised in a current picture; deriving in...