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. 12,634,446, issued on May 19, was assigned to NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding device for block-dividing and encoding an original image of a frame unit constituting a moving image is disclosed that includes a predictor circuitry configured to generate a predicted image, a weighted average processor configured to generate a block of a new predicted image, a prediction residual signal generator circuitry configured to calculate an error of e...