US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Dec. 16 for "Image processing apparatus and method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,057, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and method" was invented by Takeshi Tsukuba (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and method that enable a specification of a bitstream to correspond to a profile more reliably.In a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied, a moving image as an encoding target is encoded with a picture type of all pictures set as an I-picture. Furthermore, a bitstream of a moving image as a decoding target is decoded, and it is checked whether the picture type of all pictures of the mov...