ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,384, issued on April 22, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus based on wrap-around motion compensation, and recording medium storing bitstream" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea) and Seung Hwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method includes obtaining inter prediction information of a current block and wraparound information from a bitstream, and generating a prediction block of the current block based on the inter ...