ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,066, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).
"Image decoding apparatus and image coding apparatus" was invented by Kiran Mukesh Misra (Vancouver, Wash.), Jie Zhao (Vancouver, Wash.) and Christopher Andrew Segall (Vancouver, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating a prediction for an area of video data, comprises Receiving a rectangular video block including sample values, and for each sample included in the video block, generating a predictive sample value by averaging a horizontal interpolation and a vertical interpolation corresponding to the location of the sample within the video b...