US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Sept. 23 for "Encoding and decoding method and apparatus for immersive video" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,646, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Encoding and decoding method and apparatus for immersive video" was invented by Kwan Jung Oh (Daejeon, South Korea), Gwang Soon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Hong Chang Shin (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jun Young Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for encoding/decoding an immersive image, and the method for encoding an immersive image may include extracting an invalid region from an already encoded atlas and encoding a current atlas by referring to the invalid region."

The patent ...