US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on July 21 for "Image processing device and method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,731, issued on July 21, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device and method" was invented by Takeshi Tsukuba (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and method capable of suppressing an increase in a processing amount of encoding and decoding. In a case of a high-throughput mode in which a context encoding bin after a last coefficient position of image data is processed as a bypass encoding bin, a prefix portion of the last coefficient position is encoded or decoded as a bypass encoding bin. Furthermore, in the case of the high-throughput mode, encod...