ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,017, issued on March 25, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and EWHA UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Video encoding and decoding using differential modulation" was invented by Je Won Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Wook Park (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Wha Pyeong Lim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a video encoding and decoding technology using a differential modulation technique for a residual signal in order to enhance compression performance in a transform skip mode. The differential modulation techn...