US Patent Issued to MAXELL on April 21 for "Image encoding method and image decoding method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,040, issued on April 21, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Image encoding method and image decoding method" was invented by Takuya Shimizu (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding method for encoding an image includes generating a prediction image by a plurality of types of prediction image generating processing, the plurality of types of prediction image generating processing include an intra prediction, an inter prediction, and a synthesis prediction, wherein the synthesis prediction performs synthesis processing of synthesizing a prediction image of an inter prediction and a prediction image of an...