US Patent Issued to SK TELECOM on May 27 for "Inter-prediction method and video decoding apparatus using the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,835, issued on May 27, was assigned to SK TELECOM Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Inter-prediction method and video decoding apparatus using the same" was invented by Tae Young Na (Seoul, South Korea), Sun Young Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Kyung Hwan Ko (Seoul, South Korea), Se Hoon Son (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Il Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an inter-prediction method and an image decoding apparatus using the same. According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an inter-prediction method including extracting a merge candidate flag and offset information from a bitstre...