US Patent Issued to INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY on July 22 for "Image encoding/decoding method and device, and recording medium in which bitstream is stored" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,878, issued on July 22, was assigned to INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device, and recording medium in which bitstream is stored" was invented by Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is about an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. According to present invention, a method of decoding an image, the method comprising, deriving an initial motion vector of a current block; d...