US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA, DIGITALINSIGHTS on Oct. 21 for "Method and apparatus for video coding using spiral scan order" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,425, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and DIGITALINSIGHTS INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for video coding using spiral scan order" was invented by Yong Jo Ahn (Seoul, South Korea), Jong Seok Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Seung Wook Park (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding method and an apparatus using a spiral scan order are disclosed. The video coding method and the apparatus perform encode/decode target blocks in a spiral scan order for allowing the blocks located centrally of a video frame to make use of ...