ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,450, issued on June 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Encoding apparatus, encoding method, and storage medium" was invented by Susumu Igarashi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An obtaining unit obtains a plurality of first pixel values and a plurality of second pixel values generated by an image sensor and corresponding to a plurality of pixels. A first gain is applied to each of the plurality of first pixel values and a second gain greater than the first gain is applied to each of the plurality of second pixel values. An encoding unit encodes each of a plurality of target pixel values on the basis of a correlat...