US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on March 25 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" (Singaporean, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,010, issued on March 25, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" was invented by Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Hai Wei Sun (Singapore), Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar (Singapore), Han Boon Teo (Singapore), Ru Ling Liao (Singapore), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan) and Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder according to one aspect of the present disclosure encodes a block of an image, and includes a processor and memory connected to the processor. Using the memory, the processor partitions a block into a plur...