ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,066, issued on March 18, was assigned to INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding video signal" 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: "According to the present invention, a method of decoding a video signal may include decoding division information that indicates whether a current decoding block is divided into two partial blocks, decoding information that indicates a division direction for the current decoding block when the division information indicates that...