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. 12,244,796, 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 Ryuichi Kanoh (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: "A decoder comprises circuitry and memory. The circuitry, using the memory, in operation, determines a number of first pixels and a number of second pixels used in a deblocking filter process, wherein the first pixels are located at an upper side of a block boundary and the second pixels are located at...