US Patent Issued to Canon on April 1 for "Image encoding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, image encoding method, image decoding method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,494, issued on April 1, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image encoding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, image encoding method, image decoding method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Koji Okawa (Tokyo) and Masato Shima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image is divided into a plurality of tiles and the tile is divided into rectangular regions each including at least one block row formed from a plurality of blocks each having a size smaller than the tile. If each slice in the image includes only one rectangular region, based on the number of blocks in a vertical direction in the rect...