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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,327, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI (Tokyo).

"Prediction image correcting device, 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: "A prediction image correcting device comprises a predictor (108) configured to predict a target image block obtained by dividing a present image frame by using a plurality of reference images to generate a prediction image corresponding to the target image block a prediction accuracy evaluator (109) configured to evaluate prediction accuracy of the pre...