US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 23 for "Encoding device, decoding device, encoding method, decoding method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,594, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Encoding device, decoding device, encoding method, decoding method, and program" was invented by Florian Beye (Tokyo), Hayato Itsumi (Tokyo), Koichi Nihei (Tokyo), Charvi Vitthal (Tokyo), Yusuke Shinohara (Tokyo) and Takanori Iwai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Estimating determines, on the basis of processed quantized values, a quantization interval for quantizing input element values, which are elements of input values serving as a processing object and determines, on the basis of the processed quantized values, a probability distribution of quantization value can...