US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Nov. 18 for "Encoder for encoding a plurality of coefficient information flags and encoding a plurality of absolute value flags" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,152, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder for encoding a plurality of coefficient information flags and encoding a plurality of absolute value flags" was invented by Yusuke Kato (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: "An encoder including circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In a second type of residual coding among a first type of residual coding where an orthogonal transform is applied to a current block and the second type of residual coding whe...