US Patent Issued to Sharp on March 31 for "Moving image decoding/encoding" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,053, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Moving image decoding/encoding" was invented by Frank Bossen (Vancouver, Wash.), Eiichi Sasaki (Sakai City, Japan), Yukinobu Yasugi (Sakai City, Japan) and Tomohiro Ikai (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moving image decoding method for deriving a prediction image of a chrominance image by using a luminance image is provided. The method derives a first luminance value and a first chrominance value corresponding to a first position, and derives a second luminance value and a second chrominance value corresponding to a second position. The meth...