ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,587, issued on June 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image encoding apparatus, image encoding method, image decoding apparatus, image decoding method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Koji Okawa (Tokyo) and Masato Shima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In prediction, one of a first mode for deriving, using pixels in an image including a target block, predicted pixels in the target block, a second mode for deriving the predicted pixels in the target block using pixels in an image different from the image including the target block, a third mode for generating the predicted pixels in the t...