US Patent Issued to Panasonic intellectual Property Corporation of America on Aug. 12 for "Encoding and decoding with merge mode and block partition index" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,041, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Panasonic intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoding and decoding with merge mode and block partition index" was invented by Jing Ya Li (Singapore), Che Wei Kuo (Singapore), Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Chu Tong Wang (Singapore), Han Boon Teo (Singapore), Hai Wei Sun (Singapore), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan) and Yusuke Kato (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder determines, based on a width and a height of a block, whether or not to disable a prediction mode in which the block is split alo...