US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on July 15 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" (Singaporean, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,297, issued on July 15, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder that encodes a current block in a picture includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry: splits the current...