US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on Nov. 3 for "Image decoding method and apparatus based on a signal type of the control parameter of the current block" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. RE51,108, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Image decoding method and apparatus based on a signal type of the control parameter of the current block" 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: "The image decoding method includes: determining a context for use in a current block to be processed, from among a plurality of contexts; and performing arithmetic decoding on a bit sequence corresponding to the current block, using the ...