ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,193, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image processing device and method" was invented by Takeshi Tsukuba (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and method for enabling suppression of reduction in encoding efficiency. Encoding of secondary transform control information that is control information related to secondary transform is omitted in a case where a transform skip flag of at least one component among valid components in image encoding is true, and the secondary transform control information is encoded in a case where the transform sk...