US Patent Issued to MAXELL on Oct. 7 for "Image encoding method synthesizing inter prediction image and intra prediction image and image decoding method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,033, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Image encoding method synthesizing inter prediction image and intra prediction image 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 of generating a prediction image of a synthesis prediction by performing synthesis processing of synthesizing a prediction image of an in-screen block copy prediction and a prediction image of an intra prediction different from the in-screen block copy prediction, to an encoding-target block; ...