US Patent Issued to NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI on July 14 for "Encoding device, decoding device and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,128, issued on July 14, 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: "The encoding device includes: a predictor configured to generate, for each component, a prediction block corresponding to an encoding-target block; a residual generator configured to generate, for each component, a prediction residual representing a difference between the encoding-target block and the prediction block; a mode selector configured to select one mode either an individual encoding mode p...