US Patent Issued to KDDI on Aug. 25 for "Image decoding device, image decoding method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,040, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to KDDI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image decoding device, image decoding method, and program" was invented by Haruhisa Kato (Fujimino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image decoding device (200), a synthesis unit (280) is configured to generate predicted pixels by performing weighted averaging processing using weighting factors on predicted pixels outputted by an intra prediction unit (260) and predicted pixels outputted by a motion compensation unit (270)."

The patent was filed on Dec. 22, 2023, under Application No. 18/394,098.

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