ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,771, issued on July 1, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Image encoding method and image decoding method" was invented by Takuya Shimizu (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding method for encoding an image, includes: a prediction image generation step generating a synthesis-prediction image by performing synthesis processing synthesizing an inter-prediction image and an intra-prediction image to an encoding-target block; and an encoding step encoding a difference between the prediction image generated in the prediction image generation step and a pixel value of an image of the encoding-target block, a...