US Patent Issued to Canon on April 22 for "Image encoding apparatus, image encoding method, image decoding apparatus, image decoding method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,351, issued on April 22, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding apparatus for encoding an image comprises a generation unit configured to generate, from a first quantization matrix having a size of NxN (N is a positive integer), a second quantization matrix having a size of PxQ (P and Q are positive integers which satisfy Pgreater thanNgreater thanQ, and the size of PxQ indicates a size of P in a horizont...