US Patent Issued to Velos Media on Jan. 13 for "Decoding device, encoding device, decoding method, encoding method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,433, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Velos Media LLC (Plano, Texas).

"Decoding device, encoding device, decoding method, encoding method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium" was invented by Yukinobu Yasugi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coding device and a decoding device are configured to include an estimated prediction mode deciding section (122a) including: a reference block selecting section (1223a) for selecting a reference block for use in estimating an intra-prediction mode for a subject block; an estimating number deciding section (1222a) for deciding an estimating number of estimated val...