US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Dec. 16 for "Image processing device and method for partitioning a coding unit used for inter prediction based on bi-directional optical flow into partitioned processing units" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,033, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device and method for partitioning a coding unit used for inter prediction based on bi-directional optical flow into partitioned processing units" was invented by Sinsuke Hishinuma (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kenji Kondo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to image processing device and method that achieve a reduction in a buffer size.The image processing device partitions a unit of processing into partitioned processing units each of which corresponds to a VPDU size or is equal to or smaller than the VPDU size, the unit of ...