US Patent Issued to NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI on Aug. 25 for "Encoding device, decoding device and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,057, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI (Tokyo).

"Encoding device, decoding device and program" was invented by Shunsuke Iwamura (Tokyo), Shimpei Nemoto (Tokyo) and Atsuro Ichigaya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding device includes: a quantizer configured to perform a quantization process; a loop filter configured to perform an adaptive loop filter process; and an entropy encoder configured to output a bit stream including an adaptive parameter set. The adaptive parameter set includes encoding tool type information indicating which parameter of parameter candidates including one of a scaling list par...