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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,471, 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 Masato Ohkawa (Toyama, Japan), Hideo Saitou (Ishikawa, Japan), 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 performs a determination process of determining a boundary strength for controlling deblocking filtering to be applied to a block boundary in a generated reconstructed picture. The determination process includes: a first processing, which is performed in a c...