US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on Dec. 9 for "Motion vector calculation method, picture coding method, picture decoding method, motion vector calculation apparatus, and picture coding and decoding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. RE50,698, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Motion vector calculation method, picture coding method, picture decoding method, motion vector calculation apparatus, and picture coding and decoding apparatus" was invented by Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Youji Shibahara (Osaka, Japan) and Hisao Sasai (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current block included in a current picture included in a coded video stream is decoded by determining a reference picture in the coded video stream, the reference picture being included in one of (i) a first reference picture group of the c...