ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,644, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image processing device and image processing method" was invented by Kenji Kondo (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to an image processing device and an image processing method capable of improving prediction accuracy.A predicted image of a current prediction block is generated by performing interpolation processing using an original pixel of a reference image as a top adjacent pixel adjacent to a top of the predicted image of the current prediction block to be encoded/decoded when performing an intra prediction using a matrix operati...