US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on July 29 for "Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and recording medium storing bitstream" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,708, issued on July 29, 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: "The present specification discloses a method of decoding an image. The method includes obtaining a motion vector of a collocated block included in a reference picture of a current block in a temporal motio...