ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,673, issued on July 29, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image processing apparatus and method" was invented by Jongdae Kim (Tokyo), Tomoaki Kudo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masaru Ikeda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus (encoder, decoder or the like) and method suppress reduction in encoding efficiency. Encoding of coefficient data is skipped in an invalid transform coefficient region, and the coefficient data is encoded in a valid transform coefficient region. Further, for example, the coefficient data in the valid transform coefficient region is encoded in a scan order corresponding to a block...