US Patent Issued to Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation of Sejong University on July 29 for "Method and device for encoding and decoding image signal" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,686, issued on July 29, was assigned to Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation of Sejong University (Seoul, South Korea).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encoding image signal, according to the present invention, can: encode a partial block coefficient flag indicating whether a coefficient of a current partial block is a non-zero coefficient; encode a first flag indicating whether an absolute value of the coefficient is greater than 1, enc...