ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,768, issued on July 1, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Derivation method and apparatuses with candidate motion vectors" was invented by Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Youji Shibahara (Osaka, Japan), Kyoko Tanikawa (Osaka, Japan), Hisao Sasai (Osaka, Japan) and Toru Matsunobu (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moving picture coding apparatus for coding a current block from among blocks in a picture is provided. A motion vector predictor candidate list, having a fixed size, is generated, with the motion vector predictor candidate list including first and second candidates. The mot...