US Patent Issued to NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI on Sept. 16 for "Decoding device, program, and decoding method using chroma residual scaling" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,665, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI (Tokyo).

"Decoding device, program, and decoding method using chroma residual scaling" was invented by Shunsuke Iwamura (Tokyo), Shimpei Nemoto (Tokyo) and Atsuro Ichigaya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: decoding a bitstream and thereby outputting a transform coefficients for each color component of the block, a first flag indicating for each color component whether the block includes a non-zero transform coefficient, and a second flag indicating whether the block has been encoded using a color space transform that transforming a color space of a pr...