US Patent Issued to INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF SEJONG UNIVERSITY on April 1 for "Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding an image" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,507, issued on April 1, was assigned to INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF SEJONG UNIVERSITY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding an image" was invented by Joo Hee Moon (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Won Lim (Seoul, South Korea) and Dong Jae Won (Goyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The method and apparatus select at least one reference pixel line from among multiple reference pixel lines and derive a predicted value of a pixel within a current block by using the value of at least one pixel within the selected reference pi...