US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on May 13 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,804, issued on May 13, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an encoder which includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry splits an image block into a plurality of pa...