US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on June 24 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,964, issued on June 24, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In residual coding of a current block to which an orthogonal transform is not applied, when coefficient information flags relating to a coefficient in the current block are encoded, the circuitry: performs a level mapping process to tran...