US Patent Issued to NEC on Dec. 23 for "Video decoding device and video encoding device using inter prediction" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,876, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Video decoding device and video encoding device using inter prediction" was invented by Kenta Senzaki (Tokyo), Yuzo Senda (Tokyo), Keiichi Chono (Tokyo) and Hirofumi Aoki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a video decoding device for decoding video using inter prediction, decoding control means sets capable values of an inter-PU (Prediction Unit) partition type of a CU (Coding Unit) to be decoded, based on whether or not a size of the CU to be decoded is equal to a minimum inter-PU size."

The patent was filed on Jan. 23, 2024, under Application No. 18/420,036.

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