US Patent Issued to INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY on Sept. 16 for "Image encoding/decoding method and device, and recording medium storing bit stream" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,677, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device, and recording medium storing bit stream" was invented by Hyun Suk Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Dong San Jun (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 relates to an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The image decoding method according to the present invention may comprise ...