ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,004, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Image decoding apparatus" was invented by Tomonori Hashimoto (Sakai, Japan), Tomohiro Ikai (Sakai, Japan), Takeshi Chujoh (Sakai, Japan) and Eiichi Sasaki (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A WP prediction and a GBI prediction are adaptively used in combination. A video decoding apparatus (31) includes: a weighted prediction unit (3094) configured to generate a prediction image by using at least one of a weight coefficient or an offset configured for a first unit region and a weight coefficient configured for a second unit region different from the first un...