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" (Singaporean, Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,060, 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 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), 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 image coding method includes: writing, into a s...