ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,051, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Coding apparatus and method, and storage medium" was invented by Yusuke Horishita (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coding apparatus that performs coding processing on each block of an input image comprises a coding unit that executes coding processing using an inter-prediction mode, an intra-prediction mode or a multi-reference prediction mode, an output unit that outputs a result of the coding processing as coded data; and a calculation unit that calculates a first coding cost if the block is coded in the inter-prediction mode and a second coding cost if t...