US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Feb. 4 for "Image decoding device and image decoding method deriving filtering strength parameter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,153, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image decoding device and image decoding method deriving filtering strength parameter" was invented by Shunichi Sekiguchi (Tokyo), Kazuo Sugimoto (Tokyo), Hiroharu Sakate (Tokyo), Tokumichi Murakami (Tokyo) and Akira Minezawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When removing a block distortion occurring in a local decoded image, a loop filtering part 11 of an image coding device carries out a filtering process on each of signal components (a luminance signal component and color difference signal components) after setting the intensity of a filter for removing...