US Patent Issued to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University on May 13 for "Method for encoding/decoding image and device using same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,840, issued on May 13, was assigned to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method for encoding/decoding image and device using same" was invented by Byeung Woo Jeon (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Seung Ha Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hiuk Jae Shim (Chuncheon-si, South Korea) and Da Hee Lee (Wonju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding an image, according to the present invention, can comprise the steps of: drawing out a vector predictor of a block vector for indicating a reference block with respect to a current block to be predicted within a current picture; dr...