US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Jan. 27 for "Image processing device and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,944, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Image processing device and method" was invented by Takefumi Nagumo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takuya Kitamura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image processing device to suppress a drop in encoding efficiency. One of spatial prediction and phase prediction is set as a prediction method for a pixel to be processed in image data generated by a pixel array in which blocks, each including a plurality of pixels adjacent to each other, are arranged in a predetermined pattern. A prediction value for the pixel to be proces...