US Patent Issued to Canon on March 25 for "Image encoding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, control methods thereof, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,014, issued on March 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image encoding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, control methods thereof, 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 present invention provides an image encoding apparatus for encoding a sequence of images, where the apparatus comprises a prediction unit which generates, for a target block to be encoded having a predetermined size in an image, a predicted image from both an intra-prediction image and an inter-prediction image, and obtains prediction errors that are differences between the ...