US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on Feb. 25 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,328, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" was invented by Jing Ya Li (Singapore), Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Ru Ling Liao (Singapore), Hai Wei Sun (Singapore), Han Boon Teo (Singapore), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan) and Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder includes circuitry and memory connected to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: corrects a base motion vector using a correction value for correcting the base motion vector in a predete...