US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on July 29 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,722, issued on July 29, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" was invented by Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan) and Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder that encodes a moving picture using an inter prediction process, and includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In the inter prediction process, when performing a correction process which is a local illumination compensation (LIC) process for a prediction image, the circuitry, in operation; performs the cor...