ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,078, issued on March 18, 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: "A predetermined context variable is assigned, according to a device, system, or method, to a first bin of a bin sequence obtained by binarizing an adaptive orthogonal transform identifier indicating a mode of adaptive orthogonal transform in image encoding and context encoding is performed for the first bin of the bin sequence. Furthermore, a predetermined context variable is assigned to a first bin of a bin sequence obtained by binarizing an adaptive orthogonal...