US Patent Issued to JVCKENWOOD on Dec. 9 for "Picture coding device, picture coding method, and picture coding program, picture decoding device, picture decoding method, and picture decoding program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,140, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to JVCKENWOOD Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Picture coding device, picture coding method, and picture coding program, picture decoding device, picture decoding method, and picture decoding program" was invented by Hideki Takehara (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroya Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoru Sakazume (Kanagawa, Japan), Shigeru Fukushima (Kanagawa, Japan), Toru Kumakura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroyuki Kurashige (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A picture coding device, for coding a moving picture using inter prediction based on inter prediction information in units of blocks into which each pi...