US Patent Issued to Fujitsu on Dec. 9 for "Encoding apparatus and decoding apparatus, and encoding method and decoding method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,992, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Fujitsu Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Encoding apparatus and decoding apparatus, and encoding method and decoding method" was invented by Tomonori Kubota (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: determine, based on a result of a recognition process by AI, a target region desirable for recognizing a recognition target in image data and a limit compression rate at which the recognition target is recognizable; encode all regions of the image data at the limit compression rate, and transmits the encod...