US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 3 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,837, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing system" was invented by Takahisa Akaishi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus acquiring image data whose color information is defined by N-bit signal values; acquiring data range information; quantizing the signal values for each of the color components in the acquired image data into M-bit signal values (Nless thanM) based on the data range information; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the quantized image data, wherein the quantizing is performed s...