US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on Aug. 4 for "Image decoding method, image coding method, image decoding apparatus, image coding apparatus, and image coding and decoding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,240, issued on Aug. 4, 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: "An image decoding method of decoding, on a block-by-block basis, image data included in a coded stream includes: deriving candidates for an intra prediction mode to be used for intra prediction for a decodi...