US Patent Issued to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS on Aug. 11 for "Prediction image generation method, image coding method, image decoding method, and prediction image generation apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,076, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Prediction image generation method, image coding method, image decoding method, and prediction image generation apparatus" was invented by Satoshi Yoshikawa (Hyogo, Japan), Hisao Sasai (Osaka, Japan) and Kengo Terada (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoder, encoder, and a recording medium causes a processor to generate a prediction image by an inter prediction process by i) obtaining first information from a bitstream associated with a variable number of feature points of a current block usable in performing an affine pred...