US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on Aug. 5 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method using a first partition mode to split a first block into a plurality of second blocks and a second partition mode to split the second block into a plurality of coding units" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,108, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method using a first partition mode to split a first block into a plurality of second blocks and a second partition mode to split the second block into a plurality of coding units" was invented by Ryuichi Kanoh (Osaka, Japan), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan) and Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoder performs a first partitioning including using a first partition mode, without writing first splitting information ...