US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on May 6 for "Image coding method, image decoding method, image coding apparatus, and image decoding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,698, issued on May 6, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Image coding method, image decoding method, image coding apparatus, and image decoding apparatus" 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: "An image coding method includes: generating a first flag indicating whether or not a motion vector predictor is to be selected from among one or more motion vector predictor candidates; generating a second flag indicating whether or not a motion vector predictor is to be selected from among the one or mo...