US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on April 22 for "Video encoding method, video decoding method, video encoding apparatus, and video decoding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,358, issued on April 22, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Video encoding method, video decoding method, video encoding apparatus, and video decoding apparatus" was invented by Kengo Terada (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Hisao Sasai (Osaka, Japan) and Satoshi Yoshikawa (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoding method of performing scalable encoding on input video includes: determining a total number of layers of the scalable encoding to be less than or equal to a maximum layer count determined according to a frame rate; and performing the scalable encoding on the input video to generate a...