US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on May 20 for "Image decoding method, image coding method, image decoding apparatus, image coding apparatus, program, and integrated circuit" (Japanese, Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,371, issued on May 20, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Image decoding method, image coding method, image decoding apparatus, image coding apparatus, program, and integrated circuit" was invented by Hisao Sasai (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Youji Shibahara (Osaka, Japan), Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Viktor Wahadaniah (Singapore), Xuan Jing (Singapore) and Sue Mon Thet Naing (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method which can improve both image quality and coding efficiency is an image decoding method for decoding a coded stream which includes a plurality of processing un...