US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on Aug. 19 for "System and method for video coding" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,663, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"System and method for video coding" was invented by Che-Wei Kuo (Singapore), Jing Ya Li (Singapore), Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Han Boon Teo (Singapore), Hai Wei Sun (Singapore), Rohith Mars (Singapore), 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. The circuitry determines whether a first virtual pipeline decoding unit (VPDU) is split into smaller blocks and whether a second ...