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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,717, issued on May 6, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Moving picture coding method, moving picture coding apparatus, moving picture decoding method, moving picture decoding apparatus, and moving picture coding and decoding apparatus" was invented by Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Youji Shibahara (Osaka, Japan), Kyoko Tanikawa (Osaka, Japan), Hisao Sasai (Osaka, Japan), Toru Matsunobu (Osaka, Japan) and Kengo Terada (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moving picture coding apparatus includes an intra-inter prediction unit which calculates a second motion vector by performing a sc...