US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on March 11 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method using horizontal and vertical gradients for prediction" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,384, issued on March 11, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method using horizontal and vertical gradients for prediction" was invented by Jing Ya Li (Singapore), Ru Ling Liao (Singapore), Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Han Boon Teo (Singapore), Hai Wei Sun (Singapore), 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 includes circuitry and memory connected to the circuitry. The circuitry: derives an absolute value of a sum of gradient values in first...