US Patent Issued to SONY on May 12 for "Image processing apparatus and method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,830, issued on May 12, was assigned to SONY Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and method" was invented by Kazushi Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of improving processing efficiency with pipeline processing in encoding or decoding of a motion vector. In a motion vector encoding unit, such configuration is adopted that when a spatial prediction motion vector is derived according to AMVP or Merge mode, the use of a motion vector of a PU adjacent to a top right of a PU in question is prohibited. Therefore, t...