US Patent Issued to Sharp on Aug. 25 for "Video decoding apparatus, video coding apparatus, and angular mode derivation apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,094, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Video decoding apparatus, video coding apparatus, and angular mode derivation apparatus" was invented by Yukinobu Yasugi (Sakai City, Japan), Tomohiro Ikai (Sakai City, Japan) and Tomoko Aono (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a conventional angular mode derivation, comparison of a magnitude relationship is required multiple times to convert gradients of pixel values into an angular mode, and this hinders parallel processing. A gradient derivation unit configured to derive a first gradient being a gradient of a pixel value included in a gradien...