US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 5 for "Image encoding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, image encoding method, image decoding method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,040, issued on Aug. 5, 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 rectangular regions each including at least one block row, and the image is divided into rectangular slices or slices to be processed in raster order. In a case where the image is divided into the rectangular slices, based on first information for specifying a rectangular region to be processed first and second inf...