US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on Dec. 2 for "Image coding method, image decoding method, image coding apparatus, receiving apparatus, and transmitting apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,911, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Image coding method, image decoding method, image coding apparatus, receiving apparatus, and transmitting apparatus" was invented by Kengo Terada (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan) and Hisao Sasai (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image coding method of hierarchically coding a plurality of pictures to generate a bitstream, includes: coding each of the plurality of pictures, which belongs to any one of a plurality of hierarchical layers, with reference to a picture belonging to a hierarchical layer which is same as or lower than a hierarchical ...