US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 17 for "Method and device for encoding or decoding encoding unit of picture outline" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,474, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for encoding or decoding encoding unit of picture outline" was invented by Min-woo Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), Bo-ra Jin (Yongin-si, South Korea), Chan-yul Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Jung-hye Min (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding or decoding a coding unit on an outline of a picture. An image decoding method and apparatus according to an embodiment determine whether a current coding unit extends across an outline of a picture, by comparing a lo...