ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,607, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Video coding apparatus and video decoding apparatus" was invented by Keiichiro Takada (Sakai, Japan), Yukinobu Yasugi (Sakai, Japan), Tomohiro Ikai (Sakai, Japan), Tomoko Aono (Sakai, Japan), Takeshi Chujoh (Sakai, Japan) and Tomonori Hashimoto (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a case that a scaling value of neural network filter strength is set equal to 0, a decoded image before a deblocking filter is output, and thus block noise occurs. In a case that luma and chroma parameters are not taken into consideration, processing for an image of multiple tran...