ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,644, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Affine model-based image encoding/decoding method and device" was invented by Yong Jo Ahn (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image encoding/decoding method and device according to the present invention, a candidate list for motion information prediction of a current block is generated, a control point vector of the current block is derived on the basis of the candidate list and a candidate index, a motion vector of the current block is derived on the basis of the control point vector of the current block, and inter-pre...