US Patent Issued to Sharp on Jan. 28 for "Moving image decoding method using chrominance format and intra-frame prediction mode" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,755, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Moving image decoding method using chrominance format and intra-frame prediction mode" was invented by Yukinobu Yasugi (Sakai, Japan) and Tomohiro Ikai (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moving image decoding method is provided for generating a prediction image using an intra-frame prediction mode. The moving image decoding method includes deriving a first parameter and a second parameter by using a sampled luminance value down-sampled according to a chrominance format and the intra-frame prediction mode; and deriving the prediction image by using the fir...