US Patent Issued to JVCKENWOOD on Jan. 20 for "Device for deriving affine merge candidate" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,982, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to JVCKENWOOD Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Device for deriving affine merge candidate" was invented by Shigeru Fukushima (Yokohama, Japan), Hiroya Nakamura (Yokohama, Japan), Toru Kumakura (Yokohama, Japan), Hideki Takehara (Yokohama, Japan), Satoru Sakazume (Yokohama, Japan) and Hiroyuki Kurashige (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moving-picture coding device, for performing an affine transform in units of coding blocks and forming a bitstream, includes a subblock-based temporal merging candidate derivation unit configured to derive a subblock-based temporal merging candidate which c...