US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA, KWANGWOON UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COLLABORATION FOUNDATION on Sept. 16 for "Decoding device and method for predicting block partitioned into random shape" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,655, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and KWANGWOON UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COLLABORATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Decoding device and method for predicting block partitioned into random shape" was invented by Dong Gyu Sim (Seoul, South Korea), Joo Hyung Byeon (Seoul, South Korea), Jong Seok Lee (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 method and a device for inversely transforming transform coefficients of a current block are disclosed. A meth...