US Patent Issued to KDDI on May 19 for "Image decoding device, image decoding method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,443, issued on May 19, was assigned to KDDI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image decoding device, image decoding method, and program" was invented by Kyohei Unno (Fujimino, Japan), Kei Kawamura (Fujimino, Japan) and Sei Naito (Fujimino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding device includes: a motion vector decoding unit that decodes a motion vector from encoded data; a refinement unit that performs refinement processing to correct the decoded motion vector; and a predictive signal generation unit that generates a predictive signal on the basis of the corrected motion vector outputted from the refinement unit. The predictive signal g...