US Patent Issued to Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation of Sejong University on Feb. 18 for "Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image signals using weight prediction parameter sets based on neighboring regions to obtain a residual block" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,657, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation of Sejong University (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image signals using weight prediction parameter sets based on neighboring regions to obtain a residual block" 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: "A method, an apparatus and a non-transitory computer-readable medium for encoding/decoding a video signal with a decoding apparatus, may comprise decoding a residual block of a current block from a bitstream...