MUMBAI, India, June 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202548057023 A) filed by Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, on June 13, for 'an image encoding apparatus, decoding apparatus, encoding method and decoding method.'

Inventor(s) include Okawa, Koji; Enokida, Miyuki; and Shima, Masato.

The application for the patent was published on June 27, under issue no. 26/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An image encoding apparatus, decoding apparatus, encoding method and decoding method is provided. The image encoding apparatus divides an image into one or more sub-pictures each comprising basic blocks and encoding the one or more sub-pictures, comprising: a first encoding...