US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on March 31 for "Image coding method, image decoding method, image coding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, and image coding and decoding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,063, issued on March 31, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Image coding method, image decoding method, image coding apparatus, image decoding 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 coding method includes coding a motion vector difference indicating a difference between the motion vector and a predicted motion vector, wherein the coding includes: coding a first portion tha...