US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on July 1 for "Moving picture coding method, moving picture decoding method, moving picture coding apparatus, moving picture decoding apparatus, and moving picture coding and decoding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,766, issued on July 1, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Moving picture coding method, moving picture decoding method, moving picture coding apparatus, moving picture decoding apparatus, and moving picture coding and decoding apparatus" was invented by Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Youji Shibahara (Osaka, Japan), Kyoko Tanikawa (Osaka, Japan), Hisao Sasai (Osaka, Japan), Toru Matsunobu (Osaka, Japan) and Kengo Terada (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moving picture coding includes: coding a first flag indicating whether or not temporal motion vector prediction is used; when the ...