US Patent Issued to INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF SEJONG UNIVERSITY on Feb. 18 for "Method for encoding/decoding using division information" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,670, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF SEJONG UNIVERSITY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for encoding/decoding using division information" was invented by Joo Hee Moon (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Jae Won (Goyang-si, South Korea), Jae Min Ha (Incheon, South Korea) and Sung Won Lim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for encoding/decoding an image according to the present invention may determine a reference area that is a pre-reconstructed area spatially adjacent to a current block on the basis of reference information for specifying the position of a ref...