US Patent Issued to NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI on May 19 for "Image encoding device, image decoding device, and program thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,444, issued on May 19, was assigned to NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI (Tokyo).

"Image encoding device, image decoding device, and program thereof" was invented by Atsuro Ichigaya (Tokyo) and Shinichi Sakaida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding device 1 of the present disclosure includes a neighboring pixel non-reference predictor 11 configured to generate a predicted image by a predetermined neighboring pixel non-reference prediction for each pixel signal of an original image in a block unit, a filter processor 12 configured to perform a low-pass filter process on a prediction signal located at a boundary of a block of the pre...