US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on May 13 for "Decoding method, encoding method, decoder, and encoder" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,846, issued on May 13, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Decoding method, encoding method, decoder, and encoder" was invented by Virginie Drugeon (Darmstadt, Germany), 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: "A decoding method includes: decoding, from a bitstream, cropping information indicating an amount of cropping corresponding to an amount of padding of a first subpicture that is a subpicture (i) which is among a plurality of subpictures constituting a picture, (ii) in which at least one end of...