US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 10 for "Image encoding apparatus and image decoding apparatus for generating a bitstream to derive information" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,754, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image encoding apparatus and image decoding apparatus for generating a bitstream to derive information" 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. Based on information representing the number of rectangular regions included in a slice of the image, the rectangular region included in the slice is specified. Based on the num...