US Patent Issued to Sharp on May 19 for "Video decoding apparatus, video coding apparatus, video decoding method, and video coding method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,442, issued on May 19, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Video decoding apparatus, video coding apparatus, video decoding method, and video coding method" was invented by Takeshi Chujoh (Sakai City, Japan), Tomohiro Ikai (Sakai City, Japan), Tomoko Aono (Sakai City, Japan), Eiichi Sasaki (Sakai City, Japan), Tomonori Hashimoto (Sakai City, Japan), Tianyang Zhou (Sakai City, Japan) and Yukinobu Yasugi (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding apparatus is a video decoding apparatus for deriving a prediction image by using a reference picture included in a reference picture list. The video decodin...