ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,674, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Video coding apparatus and video decoding apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Chujoh (Sakai, Japan), Tomohiro Ikai (Sakai, Japan), Tomoko Aono (Sakai, Japan), Eiichi Sasaki (Sakai, Japan) and Tomonori Hashimoto (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the related art, in some cases the weighted prediction processing is performed even in a case that normal prediction processing is to be performed. A video decoding apparatus includes a weighted prediction processing unit configured to decode a weight coefficient and an offset value from coded data and to genera...