US Patent Issued to KDDI on July 15 for "Image decoding device with block motion compensator and determination mechanism" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,340, issued on July 15, was assigned to KDDI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image decoding device with block motion compensator and determination mechanism" was invented by Yoshitaka Kidani (Fujimino, Japan), Kei Kawamura (Fujimino, Japan), Kyohei Unno (Fujimino, Japan) and Sei Naito (Fujimino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding device includes: a motion compensation predictor configured to generate a prediction image signal of a prediction target block based on information about a motion vector in a unit of the block and a reference frame; an overlapped block motion compensator carrying out an overlapped block motion compensati...