US Patent Issued to JVCKENWOOD on July 8 for "Moving picture coding device, moving picture coding method, moving picture coding program, moving picture decoding device, moving picture decoding method, and moving picture decoding program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,945, issued on July 8, was assigned to JVCKENWOOD Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A picture coding device includes: a block vector candidate derivation unit that derives block vector candidates o...