US Patent Issued to INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY on Oct. 7 for "Image encoding/decoding method and device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,054, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device" was invented by Bae Keun Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Dong San Jun (Changwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The image encoding/decoding method and device according to the present invention can construct a merge candidate list of a current block, derive motion information of the current block on the basis of the merge candidate list and a merge index of the current block, derive a motion vector difference of the current block, correct a motion vector of the current block by means...