US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on June 3 for "Coding method and apparatus with candidate motion vectors" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,616, issued on June 3, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Coding method and apparatus 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 decoding apparatus for decoding a current block of a picture is provided. A motion vector candidate list includes motion vector candidates. Each motion vector candidate includes a value. A second candidate is arranged before a first candidate in the motion vector c...