US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on Oct. 20 for "Image coding method, image decoding method, image coding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, and image coding and decoding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,843, issued on Oct. 20, 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) and Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image coding method comprising: obtaining current signals to be coded of each of the processing units of the image; generating a binary signal by performing binarization on each of the current signals to be coded; selecting a context for each of the current signa...