ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,725, issued on July 29, was assigned to KDDI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image decoding device, image decoding method, and program" was invented by Yoshitaka Kidani (Fujimino, Japan), Kyohei Unno (Fujimino, Japan) and Kei Kawamura (Fujimino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding device according to the present invention including a decoding unit configured to decode first syntax that controls transmission precision of a merge with motion vector difference in a sequence of a decoding target, wherein the value of the first syntax being "1" specifies that both fractional precision and integer precision could be used as the transmis...