US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 4 for "Image encoding device, image encoding method, and program, image decoding device, image decoding method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,119, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image encoding device, image encoding method, and program, 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: "An encoding device, if it is determined that a transforming processing is applied to a block to be encoded, encodes the block using a first quantization parameter, if it is determined that the transforming processing is not applied to the block and the first quantization parameter is less than a reference value, encodes the block using the reference value...