US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on April 22 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method using hypothetical reference decoder (HRD) parameters" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,376, issued on April 22, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method using hypothetical reference decoder (HRD) parameters" 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. In operation, the circuitry encodes, per temporal sub-layer, one or more hypothetical reference decoder (HRD) parameters into an HRD-related sup...