US Patent Issued to KDDI on Oct. 7 for "Image decoding device, image decoding method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,079, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KDDI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image decoding device, image decoding method, and program" was invented by Kyohei Unno (Fujimino, Japan), Kei Kawamura (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 prediction signal generation unit configured to determine whether or not an application condition of Bi-Directional Optical Flow (BDOF) processing is satisfied for each block, generate a prediction signal by executing the BDOF processing in a case where it is determined that the application condition is satisfied, and set the application condit...