US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Jan. 13 for "Reproduction apparatus, transmission apparatus, reproduction method, and transmission method" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,475, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Reproduction apparatus, transmission apparatus, reproduction method, and transmission method" was invented by Virginie Drugeon (Darmstadt, Germany), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan), Risa Ishihara (Gunma, Japan) and Nobuhiko Hashida (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reproduction apparatus includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: obtains a first segment including first subpictures corresponding to points of tim...