US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on Nov. 4 for "Method and apparatus for performing encoding/decoding by using region-based inter/intra prediction technique" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,115, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for performing encoding/decoding by using region-based inter/intra prediction technique" was invented by Gun Bang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are region-based image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The method of decoding an image includes: determining a projection format of a 360-degree video image; determining, on the basis of the determined projection format, a spatial correlation degree between a current block and ...