US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on Oct. 27 for "Image decoding method, image coding method, image decoding apparatus, image coding apparatus and integrated circuit for generating a code stream with a hierarchical code structure" (Japanese, Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. RE51,097, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Image decoding method, image coding method, image decoding apparatus, image coding apparatus and integrated circuit for generating a code stream with a hierarchical code structure" was invented by Hisao Sasai (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Youji Shibahara (Osaka, Japan), Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Viktor Wahadaniah (Singapore), Xuan Jing (Singapore) and Sue Mon Thet Naing (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method decodes a coded stream which includes processing units and a header of the processing units, and which is ge...