ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,611, issued on Oct. 14, 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 suppressing an increase in the amount of coding/decoding processing. A value according to a bit depth of an image is set as the maximum number of context-coded bins obtained by performing variable-length coding on the image. The maximum number of context-coded bins obtained by performing variable-length coding on the image is set according to a control flag indicating a processing s...