US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on Feb. 24 for "Picture coding method, picture coding apparatus, picture decoding method, and picture decoding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,208, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A picture coding method includes: performing a first derivation process for deriving a first merging candidate which includes a candidate set of a prediction direction, a motion vector, and a reference pi...