US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA, EWHA UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION FOUNDATION on Nov. 4 for "Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding video using inter-prediction" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,162, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and EWHA UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding video using inter-prediction" 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: "A video encoding method, video decoding method, and an apparatus are disclosed. The methods and the apparatus are configured to: determine first and second reference pictures and first and second motion vect...