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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,761, issued on July 21, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Image coding method, image decoding method, image coding apparatus, and image decoding apparatus" was invented by Viktor Wahadaniah (Singapore), Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Sue Mon Thet Naing (San Jose, Calif.), Hai Wei Sun (Singapore), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Hisao Sasai (Osaka, Japan), Youji Shibahara (Osaka, Japan), Kyoko Tanikawa (Osaka, Japan), Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan), Kengo Terada (Osaka, Japan) and Toru Matsunobu (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image coding method includes: deriving a candidate for a motion vector of a current bl...