US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on June 17 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,498, issued on June 17, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" was invented by Virginie Drugeon (Darmstadt, Germany), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan) and Yusuke Kato (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder includes memory and circuitry coupled to the memory. The circuitry, for each of temporal sub-layers for temporal scalability different from spatial scalability, stores first parameters into buffering period supplemental enhancement information (SEI) and ...