US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on Sept. 23 for "Image decoding method and image decoding apparatus using candidate motion vectors" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,634, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Image decoding method and image decoding apparatus using candidate motion vectors" was invented by Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Youji Shibahara (Osaka, Japan), Kyoko Tanikawa (Osaka, Japan), Hisao Sasai (Osaka, Japan) and Toru Matsunobu (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image coding method includes: determining a maximum number of merging candidates; deriving first merging candidates based on blocks spatially or temporally neighboring a current block; determining whether or not a total number of the first merging can...