US Patent Issued to NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI on Aug. 25 for "Encoding device, decoding device and program that encode or decode each target block by dividing an image that includes three or more components" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,058, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI (Tokyo).

"Encoding device, decoding device and program that encode or decode each target block by dividing an image that includes three or more components" 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 encodes each encoding-target block. The encoding device includes: a predictor configured to generate, for each of the components, a prediction block corresponding to the encoding-target block; a residual generator configured to generate, for each of the components, a prediction resid...