US Patent Issued to Korea Electronics Technology Institute on March 18 for "Patch-based depth mapping method and apparatus for high-efficiency encoding/decoding of plenoptic video" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,055, issued on March 18, was assigned to Korea Electronics Technology Institute (Gyeongg-do, South Korea).

"Patch-based depth mapping method and apparatus for high-efficiency encoding/decoding of plenoptic video" was invented by Sung-Gyun Lim (Goyang-si, South Korea), Yong Hwan Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea), Hyun-Ho Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Yura Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patch based depth mapping method and apparatus for high-efficiency encoding/decoding of a plenoptic video is proposed. The method may be performed in an electronic apparatus to classify a reference image and an additiona...