US Patent Issued to Sharp on July 1 for "Image decoding apparatus and image coding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,707, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Image decoding apparatus and image coding apparatus" was invented by Tomoko Aono (Sakai, Japan), Yukinobu Yasugi (Sakai, Japan), Tomohiro Ikai (Sakai, Japan) and Zheming Fan (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "ObjectKnown derivation, in units of intra prediction modes, of a template-based intra prediction mode based on a difference between a template prediction image and a template image has a problem that derivation of the template image and cost calculation require great computational resources.SolutionAn image decoding apparatus includes an intra prediction...