ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,997, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Video decoding apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Chujoh (Sakai, Japan), Eiichi Sasaki (Sakai, Japan), Tomonori Hashimoto (Sakai, Japan), Tomoko Aono (Sakai, Japan) and Tomohiro Ikai (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding apparatus is implemented that can suppress a decrease in coding efficiency in a case that a high compression rate is achieved. The image decoding apparatus includes a parameter decoder, and the parameter decoder decodes a skip flag indicating whether a skip mode is applied, and in a case that the skip flag does not indicate the...