US Patent Issued to Canon on July 29 for "Image encoding device, image encoding method, image decoding device, image decoding method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,642, issued on July 29, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image encoding device, image encoding method, image decoding device, 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: "The block to be encoded is encoded using a first quantization parameter corresponding to a coefficient of each color component in the block to be encoded when it is determined that orthogonal transform processing is to be performed on the coefficient of each color component in the block to be encoded, and the block to be encoded is encoded using a second quantizatio...