ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,025, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Apparatus, system, method, storage medium, and file format" was invented by Yuki Shiraishi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus acquires data representing a material appearance of a surface of an object, selects, based on the data, one of a coding method for coding by providing a scalability of a bit plane and a coding method for coding by providing a scalability of resolution, and outputs the data encoded by the selected coding method."
The patent was filed on Aug. 4, 2022, under Application No. 17/817,580.
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