US Patent Issued to Sharp on April 29 for "Image decoding apparatus and image coding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,471, issued on April 29, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Image decoding apparatus and image coding apparatus" was invented by Tomonori Hashimoto (Sakai, Japan), Eiichi Sasaki (Sakai, Japan), Tomohiro Ikai (Sakai, Japan) and Tomoko Aono (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding apparatus including a header decoder configured to decode, from coded data, a flag indicating whether dependent quantization is enabled and a flag prohibiting transform skip residual quantization, and a TU decoder configured to decode a transform coefficient in a TU block in an RRC mode in which a LAST position is coded, the LAST...