US Patent Issued to NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI on Dec. 30 for "Image encoding device, image decoding device and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,328, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI (Tokyo).

"Image encoding device, image decoding device and program" was invented by Shunsuke Iwamura (Tokyo), Atsuro Ichigaya (Tokyo) and Shimpei Nemoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding device encodes a block-based target image. The image encoding device comprises, in a transform skip mode in which orthogonal transform processing of the target image is skipped, a motion compensation predictor configured to generate a prediction image corresponding to the target image by performing motion compensation prediction using a plurality of reference images, an ...