US Patent Issued to Sharp on Feb. 24 for "Video coding apparatus and video decoding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,218, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Video coding apparatus and video decoding apparatus" was invented by Yukinobu Yasugi (Sakai, Japan), Keiichiro Takada (Sakai, Japan), Tomohiro Ikai (Sakai, Japan), Takeshi Chujoh (Sakai, Japan) and Tomoko Aono (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A problem with known SEI is that a relationship between a target image and an input tensor of a neural network model and a relationship between an output tensor and an output image are undefined or insufficient, and thus processing cannot be performed by simply using a model. Another problem is that in a case that th...