ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,028, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Video decoding apparatus and video coding apparatus" was invented by Tomohiro Ikai (Sakai, Japan), Tomonori Hashimoto (Sakai, Japan) and Tomoko Aono (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding/decoding apparatus that can enhance coding efficiency using non-separable transform is provided. A video decoding apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes a prediction image generation unit configured to generate a prediction image, and an inverse non-separable transform processing unit configured to perform inverse non-separable transf...