US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on July 22 for "Encoding device, decoding device, encoding method, and decoding method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,884, issued on July 22, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoding device, decoding device, encoding method, and decoding method" was invented by Yuichi Kamiya (Ishikawa, Japan), Takuya Kawashima (Ishikawa, Japan), Akira Harada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroyuki Ehara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This encoding device comprises: a downmix circuit that switches mixing processing according to the characteristic of an input stereo signal to generate either a first stereo signal or a second stereo signal obtained by mixing processing of a left channel signal and a ri...