ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,180, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).
"Video coding apparatus and decoding apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Chujoh (Sakai City, Japan), Tomoko Aono (Sakai City, Japan) and Tomohiro Ikai (Sakai City, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The number of weights of a reference list from coded data is decoded. The number of the weights of the reference list is set equal to or more than 1. A flag indicating whether a weight coefficient and an offset value are present is decoded for each index of the reference list, according to the number of the weights. The weight coefficient and the offset value are dec...