US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 4 for "Image encoding method and apparatus and image decoding method and apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,799, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image encoding method and apparatus and image decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Minsoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Woongil Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungsoo Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kiho Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Narae Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Anish Tamse (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yinji Piao (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding and decoding method and apparatus are provided. The image decoding method includes obtaining a difference q...