US Patent Issued to NEC on Nov. 25 for "Video coding apparatus, video coding method, video coding program, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,698, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Video coding apparatus, video coding method, video coding program, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Kenta Tokumitsu (Tokyo), Keiichi Chono (Tokyo) and Tomonori Yanagita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to achieve improved compression efficiency while controlling implementation costs, an adaptive loop filter includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire statistical information on a picture to be coded, an allocation unit configured to allocate a single filter set common to a plurality of blocks included in the picture, based on the stati...