US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Feb. 3 for "Encoder, decoder, and medium" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,912, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, and medium" was invented by Jing Ya Li (Singapore), Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Han Boon Teo (Singapore), Che Wei Kuo (Singapore), Hai Wei Sun (Singapore), Chu Tong Wang (Singapore), 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 encodes subpicture information in which a horizontal position and a vertical posit...