US Patent Issued to Sun Patent Trust on July 21 for "Image coding method, image coding apparatus, image decoding method and image decoding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. RE50,961, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sun Patent Trust (New York).

"Image coding method, image coding apparatus, image decoding method and image 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), Toru Matsunobu (Osaka, Japan) and Kengo Terada (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided for decoding last position information indicating a horizontal position and a vertical position of a last non-zero coefficient in a predetermined order within a current block to be decoded, ...