ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,016, issued on March 25, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, bit stream generation method, coefficient data generation method, and quantization coefficient generation method" was invented by Takeshi Tsukuba (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In encoding an image, a transform skip flag that is flag information indicating, for each component, whether or not to skip transform processing of transforming a residual between an image and a predicted image of the image into coefficient data is generated, the transform skip flag generated is encoded, coded data of the transform skip flag is generated, and a...