US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on Sept. 9 for "Inter prediction information encoding/decoding method and device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,743, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Inter prediction information encoding/decoding method and device" was invented by Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, 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: "Disclosed herein is an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. An image decoding method includes decoding a subblock merge mode indicator of a current block, decoding a regular merge mode indicator of the current block...