ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,725, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method for encoding and decoding video and apparatus thereof" was invented by Byeung Woo Jeon (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Thuc Nguyen Huu (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jong Hoon Yim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding a video according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: calculating horizontal and vertical displacements of an image block on the basis of a unit horizontal interval and a unit vertical interval; encoding a motion vector corresponding t...