US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Sept. 16 for "Method for decoding immersive video and method for encoding immersive video" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,658, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method for decoding immersive video and method for encoding immersive video" was invented by Kwan-Jung Oh (Daejeon, South Korea), Gwangsoon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Euee S. Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding an immersive video according to the present disclosure includes determining whether an input image is a first type, converting the input image into the first type when the input image is a second type different from the first type, encoding a converted image, and ...