ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,528, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Video decoding apparatus and video coding apparatus" was invented by Tianyang Zhou (Sakai, Japan), Tomohiro Ikai (Sakai, Japan), Tomoko Aono (Sakai, Japan) and Tomonori Hashimoto (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video coding and decoding apparatuses (11 and 31) capable of improving coding efficiency are provided. The video decoding apparatus (31) according to an aspect of the present invention is a video decoding apparatus (31) including a prediction unit (30377) that derives a prediction image using a weight parameter derived from an angle variable, and ...