US Patent Issued to INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Nov. 18 for "Encoder for encoding information of sub-bitstreams having mutually different frame rates" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,132, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder for encoding information of sub-bitstreams having mutually different frame rates" was invented by Virginie Drugeon (Darmstadt, Germany), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan) and Yusuke Kato (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder includes circuitry, and memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry, in operation, for each of a plurality of sub-bitstreams having mutually different frame rates, encodes identification information into a header of a bitstream...