Patents by Inventor Sei Naito
Sei Naito has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 12689769Abstract: An image decoding device includes: a decoding unit configured to decode a first flag which is included in a slice header and controls enabling/disabling of PROF processing from encoded data; and an affine prediction signal generation unit configured to perform the PROF processing in a case where the first flag indicates that the PROF processing is enabled in a slice corresponding to the slice header, and generate a prediction signal without performing the PROF processing in a case where the first flag indicates that the PROF processing is disabled in a slice corresponding to the slice header.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2024Date of Patent: July 21, 2026Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Kyohei Unno, Kei Kawamura, Sei Naito
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Patent number: 12671808Abstract: An image decoding device, includes a filter unit using, as an input, a decoded signal prior to the filtering process and output a filtered decoded signal. The filter unit performs clipping processing on the decoded signal prior to the filtering process such that the absolute value of a differential value between a reference pixel value and a pixel value of the decoded signal prior to the filtering process is less than or equal to a predefined threshold value, and to generate the filtered decoded signal through the linear weighted addition of the value after the clipping processing is performed and the pixel value of the decoded signal prior to the filtering process; and a large-small relationship between the threshold value for a luma signal and the threshold value for a chroma signal are defined such that the large-small relationship is unchanged when an internal bit depth is changed.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2025Date of Patent: June 30, 2026Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Kyohei Unno, Kei Kawamura, Sei Naito
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Patent number: 12671809Abstract: An image decoding device, includes a filter unit using, as an input, a decoded signal prior to the filtering process and output a filtered decoded signal. The filter unit performs clipping processing on the decoded signal prior to the filtering process such that the absolute value of a differential value between a reference pixel value and a pixel value of the decoded signal prior to the filtering process is less than or equal to a predefined threshold value, and to generate the filtered decoded signal through the linear weighted addition of the value after the clipping processing is performed and the pixel value of the decoded signal prior to the filtering process; and a large-small relationship between the threshold value for a luma signal and the threshold value for a chroma signal are defined such that the large-small relationship is unchanged when an internal bit depth is changed.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2025Date of Patent: June 30, 2026Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Kyohei Unno, Kei Kawamura, Sei Naito
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Patent number: 12634443Abstract: An image decoding device includes: a motion vector decoding unit that decodes a motion vector from encoded data; a refinement unit that performs refinement processing to correct the decoded motion vector; and a predictive signal generation unit that generates a predictive signal on the basis of the corrected motion vector outputted from the refinement unit. The predictive signal generation unit determines whether or not to apply BDOF processing for each block, on the basis of information calculated in the course of the refinement processing.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2024Date of Patent: May 19, 2026Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Kyohei Unno, Kei Kawamura, Sei Naito
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Patent number: 12634500Abstract: A decoding device includes a transformer sets a decoded luminance component of a prediction target block to the same number of samples as that of the chrominance component corresponding to the decoded luminance component of the prediction target block and generates a luminance reference signal. A specificator specifies luminance pixels having minimum and maximum pixel values of the decoded luminance component adjacent to the decoded luminance component of the prediction target block, respectively, outputs luminance pixel values obtained from specified luminance pixels, and outputs chrominance pixel values from pigment pixels corresponding to the luminance pixels. A derivator derives a linear prediction parameter from the two pixel values and a linear prediction model. A chrominance linear predictor obtains chrominance prediction signal applying the linear prediction model based on the linear prediction parameter to the luminance reference signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2024Date of Patent: May 19, 2026Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Kei Kawamura, Sei Naito
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Patent number: 12615359Abstract: An image decoding device includes a merge unit configured to apply geometric block partitioning merge to a target block divided in a rectangular shape, wherein the merge unit includes: a merge mode specifying unit configured to specify whether or not the geometric block partitioning merge is applied; a geometric block partitioning unit configured to specify a geometric block partitioning pattern and further perform geometric block partitioning on the target block divided in the rectangular shape by using the specified geometric block partitioning pattern; and a merge list construction unit configured to construct a merge list for the target block subjected to the geometric block partitioning and decode motion information.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: April 28, 2026Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka Kidani, Kei Kawamura, Kyohei Unno, Sei Naito
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Publication number: 20260052250Abstract: An image decoding device includes a quantization parameter deriving unit configured to correct a value of a decoded quantization parameter of a target block depending on whether or not adaptive color transform has been applied to the target block, and then set, as the quantization parameter of the target block, the larger of the corrected value of the quantization parameter and a predetermined value of “0” or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2025Publication date: February 19, 2026Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Kyohei UNNO, Kei KAWAMURA, Sei NAITO
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Publication number: 20260052797Abstract: An image decoding device includes a quantization parameter deriving unit configured to correct a value of a decoded quantization parameter of a target block depending on whether or not adaptive color transform has been applied to the target block, and then set, as the quantization parameter of the target block, the larger of the corrected value of the quantization parameter and a predetermined value of “0” or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2025Publication date: February 19, 2026Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Kyohei UNNO, Kei KAWAMURA, Sei NAITO
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Publication number: 20260039824Abstract: An image decoding device includes a quantization parameter deriving unit configured to correct a value of a decoded quantization parameter of a target block depending on whether or not adaptive color transform has been applied to the target block, and then set, as the quantization parameter of the target block, the larger of the corrected value of the quantization parameter and a predetermined value of “0” or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2025Publication date: February 5, 2026Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Kyohei UNNO, Kei KAWAMURA, Sei NAITO
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Publication number: 20260039814Abstract: An image decoding device, includes a filter unit using, as an input, a decoded signal prior to the filtering process and output a filtered decoded signal. The filter unit performs clipping processing on the decoded signal prior to the filtering process such that the absolute value of a differential value between a reference pixel value and a pixel value of the decoded signal prior to the filtering process is less than or equal to a predefined threshold value, and to generate the filtered decoded signal through the linear weighted addition of the value after the clipping processing is performed and the pixel value of the decoded signal prior to the filtering process; and a large-small relationship between the threshold value for a luma signal and the threshold value for a chroma signal are defined such that the large-small relationship is unchanged when an internal bit depth is changed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2025Publication date: February 5, 2026Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Kyohei UNNO, Kei KAWAMURA, Sei NAITO
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Publication number: 20260006241Abstract: An image decoding device includes: a prediction signal generation unit configured to determine whether or not an application condition of Bi-Directional Optical Flow (BDOF) processing is satisfied for each block, generate a prediction signal by executing the BDOF processing in a case where it is determined that the application condition is satisfied, and set the application condition based on a weight coefficient in a case where calculation is performed using pixel values of two reference frames or values calculated from the pixel values in the BDOF processing such that the application condition includes a condition on time distances between the two reference frames and a target frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2025Publication date: January 1, 2026Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Kyohei UNNO, Kei KAWAMURA, Sei NAITO
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Publication number: 20250337936Abstract: An image decoding device includes an inverse transform unit configured to generate a prediction residual signal by inverse transform, the inverse transform unit is configured to control a method of decoding a secondary transform index of a target block according to information indicating a position where a non-zero coefficient is generated in the target block.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2025Publication date: October 30, 2025Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka KIDANI, Kyohei UNNO, Kei KAWAMURA, Sei NAITO
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Patent number: 12439079Abstract: An image decoding device includes: a prediction signal generation unit configured to determine whether or not an application condition of Bi-Directional Optical Flow (BDOF) processing is satisfied for each block, generate a prediction signal by executing the BDOF processing in a case where it is determined that the application condition is satisfied, and set the application condition based on a weight coefficient in a case where calculation is performed using pixel values of two reference frames or values calculated from the pixel values in the BDOF processing such that the application condition includes a condition on time distances between the two reference frames and a target frame.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2024Date of Patent: October 7, 2025Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Kyohei Unno, Kei Kawamura, Sei Naito
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Patent number: 12407856Abstract: An image decoding device includes: a prediction signal generation unit that generates a prediction signal by intra prediction, wherein in a block to which intra sub-partitions are applied, the prediction signal generation unit refers to a pixel of a decoded block adjacent to the block when generating prediction signals of all sub-blocks in the block.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2024Date of Patent: September 2, 2025Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Kyohei Unno, Yoshitaka Kidani, Kei Kawamura, Sei Naito
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Patent number: 12382070Abstract: An image decoding device includes an inverse transform unit configured to generate a prediction residual signal by inverse transform, the inverse transform unit is configured to control a method of decoding a secondary transform index of a target block according to information indicating a position where a non-zero coefficient is generated in the target block.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka Kidani, Kyohei Unno, Kei Kawamura, Sei Naito
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Publication number: 20250247536Abstract: An image decoding device includes a quantization parameter deriving unit configured to correct a value of a decoded quantization parameter of a target block depending on whether or not adaptive color transform has been applied to the target block, and then set, as the quantization parameter of the target block, the larger of the corrected value of the quantization parameter and a predetermined value of “0” or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2025Publication date: July 31, 2025Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Kyohei UNNO, Kei KAWAMURA, Sei NAITO
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Patent number: 12363340Abstract: An image decoding device includes: a motion compensation predictor configured to generate a prediction image signal of a prediction target block based on information about a motion vector in a unit of the block and a reference frame; an overlapped block motion compensator carrying out an overlapped block motion compensation process of correcting the prediction image signal of the prediction target block by subjecting the prediction image signal of the prediction target block and a prediction image signal generated based on information about a motion vector and a reference frame of an adjacent block of the prediction target block to weighted averaging; and a determinator determining whether the overlapped block motion compensation process is applied to the prediction target block or not. The determinator determines application of the overlapped block motion compensation process to the prediction target block, when unidirectional prediction is applied to the adjacent block.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2024Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka Kidani, Kei Kawamura, Kyohei Unno, Sei Naito
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Publication number: 20250203074Abstract: Provided is a moving image processing apparatus. A moving image processing apparatus includes: a detection unit configured to detect a boundary of blocks; a determination unit configured to determine a strength of the boundary detected by the detection unit; and a deciding unit configured to decide whether or not a filter is to be applied to the boundary based on the strength of the boundary determined by the determination unit. The determination unit is further configured to use a size of a transformation block to determine the strength of the boundary.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2025Publication date: June 19, 2025Inventors: Kei Kawamura, Sei Naito
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Publication number: 20250159155Abstract: An image decoding device, includes a filter unit using, as an input, a decoded signal prior to the filtering process and output a filtered decoded signal. The filter unit performs clipping processing on the decoded signal prior to the filtering process such that the absolute value of a differential value between a reference pixel value and a pixel value of the decoded signal prior to the filtering process is less than or equal to a predefined threshold value, and to generate the filtered decoded signal through the linear weighted addition of the value after the clipping processing is performed and the pixel value of the decoded signal prior to the filtering process; and a large-small relationship between the threshold value for a luma signal and the threshold value for a chroma signal are defined such that the large-small relationship is unchanged when an internal bit depth is changed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2025Publication date: May 15, 2025Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Kyohei UNNO, Kei KAWAMURA, Sei NAITO
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Publication number: 20250159136Abstract: An image decoding device includes: a motion vector decoding unit that decodes a motion vector from encoded data; a refinement unit that performs refinement processing to correct the decoded motion vector; and a predictive signal generation unit that generates a predictive signal on the basis of the corrected motion vector outputted from the refinement unit. The predictive signal generation unit determines whether or not to apply BDOF processing for each block, on the basis of information calculated in the course of the refinement processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2025Publication date: May 15, 2025Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Kyohei UNNO, Kei KAWAMURA, Sei NAITO