US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on Dec. 16 for "Video encoding method and video decoding method" (Singaporean, Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,067, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Video encoding method and video decoding method" was invented by Viktor Wahadaniah (Singapore), Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Sue Mon Thet Naing (San Jose, Calif.), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Youji Shibahara (Osaka, Japan), Hisao Sasai (Osaka, Japan) and Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoding method using a plurality of reference pictures includes: selecting whether or not a resilient picture referencing scheme is to be used for encoding video; writing a parameter indicating the selection into a header of an encoded video bit...