US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Feb. 3 for "Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and recording medium storing bitstream" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,901, issued on Feb. 3, 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 Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, 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: "An image encoding/decoding method is disclosed. An image decoding method of the present invention may comprise deriving slice mode information on a slice included in a current picture, deriving slice identif...