US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on June 17 for "Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method using a determination whether or not a reference block has two reference motion vectors that refer forward in display order with respect to a current picture" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,510, issued on June 17, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method using a determination whether or not a reference block has two reference motion vectors that refer forward in display order with respect to a current picture" 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: an inter prediction control unit which determines to code a motion vector using, among candidate predicted motion vectors, a candidate...