US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on May 6 for "Method for encoding immersive image and method for decoding immersive image" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,684, issued on May 6, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method for encoding immersive image and method for decoding immersive image" was invented by Gwang-Soon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Hong-Chang Shin (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jun-Young Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for encoding an immersive image. The method includes detecting a non-diffuse surface in a first texture image of a first view, generating an additional texture image from the first texture image based on the detected non-diffuse surface, performing pr...