US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on March 4 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,809, issued on March 4, 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), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan) and Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder including circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In both of a first case where an orthogonal transform is performed and a second case where the orthogonal transform is skipped, when a number of CABAC processes is within an allowable range, the circuitry: encodes a plurality of coeffic...