US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on April 15 for "Image coding method, image decoding method, image coding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, and image coding and decoding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,987, issued on April 15, 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 that ...