US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on Oct. 28 for "Image decoding method, image coding method, image decoding apparatus, image coding apparatus, and image coding and decoding apparatus" (Dutch, Turkish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,349, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Image decoding method, image coding method, image decoding apparatus, image coding apparatus, and image coding and decoding apparatus" was invented by Semih Esenlik (Nazilli, Turkey), Matthias Narroschke (Schaafheim, Germany) and Thomas Wedi (The Hague, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method for decoding a bitstream including a coded signal resulting from coding tiles and slices into which an image is partitioned, the method including decoding the coded signal, wherein each of the slices is either a normal slice having, in a header, inf...