ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,772, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SONY Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image processing apparatus and image processing method" was invented by Ohji Nakagami (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that are capable of improving coding efficiency at the time when a prediction using a correlation within a screen is performed. A predicted vector generation section sets, at a time of encoding of a current motion vector of a current block for a prediction using a correlation within a screen, a candidate block to not available and generates a predicted vecto...