US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 20 for "Image encoding method and device, and image decoding method and device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,373, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image encoding method and device, and image decoding method and device" was invented by Yinji Piao (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minsoo Park (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), Woongil Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Anish Tamse (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method and an apparatus thereof are provided. The decoding method includes: determining a coding unit by...