US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on April 21 for "Image decoding method, image coding method, image decoding apparatus, image coding apparatus, and image coding and decoding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,069, issued on April 21, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Image decoding method, image coding method, image decoding apparatus, image coding apparatus, and image coding and decoding apparatus" was invented by Hisao Sasai (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Youji Shibahara (Osaka, Japan), Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan), Kyoko Tanikawa (Osaka, Japan) and Toru Matsunobu (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The image decoding method includes determining a context for use in a current block to be processed, from among a plurality of contexts, wherein in the determining: the context is determined under a con...