US Patent Issued to INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY on Aug. 5 for "Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus using sample filtering" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,033, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus using sample filtering" was invented by Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The image encoding method of the present invention includes: determining whether or not to apply filtering to a filtering target sample; determining a filter type on the basis of th...