US Patent Issued to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University on July 1 for "Method and apparatus for immersive video encoding and decoding" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,147, issued on July 1, was assigned to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for immersive video encoding and decoding" was invented by Eun Seok Ryu (Seoul, South Korea), Jong Beom Jeong (Yangju-si, South Korea) and Soon Bin Lee (Seongnam-si, 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 according to the present disclosure includes: receiving an image, in which a first atlas for a basic view of a current image and a second atlas for an additional view of the current image are merged; extra...