US Patent Issued to NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI on March 25 for "Image encoding device, image decoding device and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,052, issued on March 25, 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 1 that encodes an encoding target block obtained by dividing an image, the image encoding device including: an intra predictor 172 configured to predict the encoding target block through intra prediction to generate a prediction block; and a transformer 121 configured to perform orthogonal transform processing on a prediction residual representing an error of th...