US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Feb. 11 for "Encoder, decoder, and medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,220, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, and medium" was invented by 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 includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry determines one or more tiles included in a picture and one or more subpictures included in the picture, according to a constraint condition that each tile of the one or more tiles includes at least one subpicture of the one or more sub...