US Patent Issued to Sharp on May 27 for "Image decoding apparatus and image coding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,830, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "ObjectKnown derivation, on a per intra prediction modes basis, of a template-based intra mode derivation 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.SolutionIncluded are an intra prediction image generation un...