ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,999, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image processing apparatus and image processing method" was invented by Masaru Ikeda (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus is provided. The image processing apparatus includes a decoding unit configured to generate a decoded image by decoding a coded stream, a determination unit configured to adopt a block boundary of the decoded image as a target and determine deblocking filter application necessity with respect to color difference components of the decoded image based on boundary strength that is calculated using a color dif...