US Patent Issued to KDDI on Sept. 1 for "Image decoding device, image decoding method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,654, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to KDDI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image decoding device, image decoding method, and program" was invented by Kyohei Unno (Fujimino, Japan), Yoshitaka Kidani (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 prediction signal generation unit that generates a prediction signal by intra prediction, wherein in a block to which intra sub-partitions are applied, the prediction signal generation unit refers to a pixel of a decoded block adjacent to the block when generating prediction signals of all sub-blocks in the...