US Patent Issued to Sharp on Oct. 20 for "Image decoding device, image encoding device, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,869, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Image decoding device, image encoding device, and storage medium" was invented by Tomoyuki Yamamoto (Sakai City, Japan), Tomohiro Ikai (Sakai City, Japan), Yukinobu Yasugi (Sakai City, Japan) and Takeshi Tsukuba (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memory required during decoding is reduced.A video image decoding device (1) is equipped with main direction deriving means (1453A) that references a prediction mode definition DEFPM(1), and from a prediction mode number, derives a main direction of a prediction direction corresponding to a prediction mod...