ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,292, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Video coding apparatus and decoding apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Chujoh (Sakai, Japan), Tomohiro Ikai (Sakai, Japan), Yukinobu Yasugi (Sakai, Japan) and Tomoko Aono (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a video coding and decoding method, in a case that a transmission rate is low, image quality is deteriorated due to coding distortion, but the image quality can be improved owing to post-filter processing using a neural network. However, a problem is that there may be no method of defining a strength control value to be input in the post-filter process...