US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on July 1 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,721, issued on July 1, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" was invented by Ryuichi Kanoh (Osaka, Japan), 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 which encodes a current block to be encoded in an image includes: a transformer which performs a primary transform from residuals of the current block to primary coefficients, determines whether to apply a secondary transform to the current block, and performs the secondary transform from the...