US Patent Issued to JVCKENWOOD on May 13 for "Picture decoding device, picture decoding method, and picture decoding program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,805, issued on May 13, was assigned to JVCKENWOOD Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Picture decoding device, picture decoding method, and picture decoding program" was invented by Hiroyuki Kurashige (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A block partitioner includes a quad splitter structured to partition a target block obtained by recursive partitioning in half in both a horizontal direction and a vertical direction to generate four blocks, and a binary/ternary splitter structured to partition the target block obtained by recursive partitioning into two or three in the horizontal direction or the vertical direction to generate two ...