US Patent Issued to JVCKENWOOD on Aug. 11 for "Image encoding device, image encoding method, and image encoding program, and image decoding device, image decoding method, and image decoding program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,047, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to JVCKENWOOD Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Image encoding device, image encoding method, and image encoding program, and image decoding device, image decoding method, and image decoding program" was invented by Shigeru Fukushima (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding device adapted to segment an image into blocks and encode the image in units of blocks resulting from segmenting the image is provided. A block segmentation unit recursively segments the image into rectangles of a predetermined size to generate a block subject to encoding. A bitstream generation unit encodes bl...