ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,005, issued on July 8, was assigned to SONY Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image processing apparatus and image processing method" was invented by Kazushi Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of suppressing a deterioration in image quality. The image processing apparatus includes a threshold value setting unit which sets a threshold value for identifying a feature of neighboring pixels of a current block in an intra prediction process in encoding of image data according to a bit depth of the image data and a filtering processing uni...