US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on Oct. 14 for "Image coding method, image decoding method, image coding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, and image coding and decoding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,605, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Image coding method, image decoding method, image coding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, and image coding and 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: adding, to a candidate list, a first adjacent motion vector as a candidate for a predicted motion vector to be used for coding the current motion vector; selecting the predicted motion vector from the candidate list; and coding the c...