US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on May 6 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,696, issued on May 6, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" was invented by Jing Ya Li (Singapore), Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Han Boon Teo (Singapore), Che Wei Kuo (Singapore), Hai Wei Sun (Singapore), Chu Tong Wang (Singapore), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan) and Yusuke Kato (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry, in operation: determines whether a size of a current block, which is ...