US Patent Issued to Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation of Sejong University on June 24 for "Image encoding method/device, image decoding method/device, and recording medium in which bitstream is stored" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,961, issued on June 24, was assigned to Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation of Sejong University (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding method/device, image decoding method/device, and recording medium in which bitstream is stored" 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: "The present invention provides an image encoding method and an image decoding method. The image encoding method of the present invention comprises: a first dividing step of dividing a current image into a plurality of blocks; and a second dividing s...