ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,597, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Video decoding apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Chujoh (Sakai, Japan), Tomohiro Ikai (Sakai, Japan), Tomoko Aono (Sakai, Japan), Eiichi Sasaki (Sakai, Japan), Yukinobu Yasugi (Sakai, Japan), Tomonori Hashimoto (Sakai, Japan) and Tianyang Zhou (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptive motion vector prediction unit configured to adaptively perform spatial prediction that performs prediction using a motion vector around a target block and temporal prediction that performs prediction using a motion vector of a collocated picture is included, and in the t...