US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on Feb. 11 for "Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus and recording medium for storing bitstream" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,189, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus and recording medium for storing bitstream" was invented by Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun Suk Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong San Jun (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung Hyun Cho (Daejeon, South Korea), Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jin Soo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an image encoding me...