US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Feb. 18 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,665, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" was invented by 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 encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: encodes one or more pictures which have common time information and each of which is included in a different layer; adds the one or more pictures into one access unit in a bitstream; and adds, into the bitstream, a first flag indicating...