US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on Dec. 2 for "Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and recording medium storing bitstream" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,896, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and recording medium storing bitstream" was invented by Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus based on transform. An image decoding method includes determining a horizontal transform type and a vertical transform type of a current bl...