US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on July 29 for "Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,707, issued on July 29, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method" 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 moving picture coding apparatus includes a co-located block information determination unit which determines which one of a forward reference block and a backward reference block will be a co-located block and further determines whether only the unidirectional motion vector of the motion vectors of the co-located block is to be store...