US Patent Issued to KDDI on June 9 for "Image decoding device, image decoding method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,397, issued on June 9, was assigned to KDDI Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image decoding device according to the present invention, a circuit (241/242): derives motion information for a geometric partitioning mode to generate a motion compensation sample; and derives an intra prediction mode for the geometric partitioning mode to generate an intra-predicted sample; and a buffer (244) stores or outputs prediction information including motion information or an intra prediction mode of a block to be decoded ...