US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on March 18 for "Encoding device and encoding method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,101, issued on March 18, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoding device and encoding method" was invented by Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan), Kazuhito Kimura (Shiga, Japan), Hideyuki Ohgose (Osaka, Japan), Hiroshi Arakawa (Tokyo) and Koji Arimura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding method includes determining video format information, (i) setting each of all frames or all fields which are included in the video, as a picture, regardless of whether the video format is the interlace format or the progressive format, (ii) setting a POC indicating display order...