US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on Jan. 20 for "Image encoding and decoding with a blending operation between partitions in a block" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,013, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Image encoding and decoding with a blending operation between partitions in a block" was invented by Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan), Ryuichi Kanoh (Osaka, Japan), Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Ru Ling Liao (Singapore), Hai Wei Sun (Singapore), Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar (Singapore), Han Boon Teo (Singapore) and Jing Ya Li (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoder includes circuitry and a memory, wherein the circuitry, in operation, calculates first va...