US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia, Kwangwoon University Industry-Academic Collaboration Foundation on July 29 for "Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding video using sub-picture partitioning" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,662, issued on July 29, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea), Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kwangwoon University Industry-Academic Collaboration Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding video using sub-picture partitioning" was invented by Dong Gyu Sim (Seoul, South Korea), Han Sol Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sea Nae Park (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Wook Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Wha Pyeong Lim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is configured to process a bitstream generated by encoding a sequence of pictures partitioned into ...