US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on Dec. 30 for "Image coding apparatus for coding tile boundaries" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,295, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Image coding apparatus for coding tile boundaries" was invented by Daisaku Komiya (Tokyo), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Youji Shibahara (Osaka, Japan), Hisao Sasai (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: "A processor obtains pieces of coded data, which are included in a bitstream and generated by coding tiles, and tile boundary independence information, which indicates whether each boundary between the tiles is a first or second boundary. Image data of a first tile...