US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Nov. 11 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,712, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" was invented by Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan) and Yusuke Kato (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an encoder including: circuitry; and memory coupled to the circuitry, in which the circuitry: derives a prediction residual indicating a difference between a current block and a prediction image of the current block; performs primary transform on the prediction residual, and performs seconda...