US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on July 29 for "Image coding method, image coding apparatus, image decoding method, image decoding apparatus, and image coding and decoding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,684, issued on July 29, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Image coding method, image coding apparatus, image decoding method, image decoding apparatus, and image 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) and Toru Matsunobu (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transmitting a bitstream via a network is provided. The bitstream being generated by: deriving a first candidate having a first motion vector that has been used to code a first block; derivin...