ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,611, issued on June 3, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Video decoding apparatus and video decoding method" was invented by Tianyang Zhou (Sakai, Japan), Tomohiro Ikai (Sakai, Japan), Eiichi Sasaki (Sakai, Japan) and Yukinobu Yasugi (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In conventional cases that different trees are used between luma and chroma and that luma chroma prediction including multiplication in chroma intra prediction is used, there is a problem in that a processing delay caused by the chroma intra prediction is increased in small blocks. In a case that two different trees are used between luma and chroma, i...