US Patent Issued to Sharp on Jan. 13 for "Moving image decoding method and moving image coding method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,408, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Moving image decoding method and moving image coding method" was invented by Yukinobu Yasugi (Sakai, Japan) and Hiroyuki Katata (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frequency transformation determination unit determines whether a plurality of adjacent transformation target regions with the partition boundary interposed therebetween are integrated or not. A transformation coefficient generation unit generates, by applying one frequency transformation, a transformation coefficient for the transformation target regions where the frequency transformation determ...