ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,768, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device 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 device and method capable of reducing an increase in processing delay.A data path of a one-dimensional input signal array of residual data is switched in a forward direction or a reverse direction, and matrix operation of one-dimensional orthogonal transform is performed on the one-dimensional input signal array input via the switched data path. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image pr...