US Patent Issued to INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF SEJONG UNIVERSITY on Sept. 23 for "Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,640, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF SEJONG UNIVERSITY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image" was invented by Joo Hee Moon (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Jae Won (Seoul, 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: "Disclosed herein are an image encoding method and an image decoding method. The image decoding method includes determining an initial motion vector of a current block using a motion vector of a reconstructed region, searching for the motion vector of the current block based on...