US Patent Issued to Sony Group on May 20 for "Image processing apparatus and method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,397, issued on May 20, 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 capable of suppressing an increase in load of inverse adaptive color transform processing while suppressing an increase in distortion of coefficient data subjected to inverse adaptive color transform.The coefficient data subjected to the lossless adaptive color transform is clipped at a level based on a bit depth of the coefficient data, and the coefficient data clipped at the level is su...