US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on Sept. 30 for "Coding device, decoding device, and method and program thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,151, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Coding device, decoding device, and method and program thereof" was invented by Takehiro Moriya (Atsugi, Japan), Yutaka Kamamoto (Atsugi, Japan) and Noboru Harada (Atsugi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coding method and a decoding method are provided which can use in combination a predictive coding and decoding method which is a coding and decoding method that can accurately express coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients with a small code amount and a coding and decoding method that can obtain correctly, b...