US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Nov. 18 for "Encoder that switches whether or not to store a first parameter into a buffering period supplemental enhancement information message according to a flag" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,138, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder that switches whether or not to store a first parameter into a buffering period supplemental enhancement information message according to a flag" was invented by Virginie Drugeon (Darmstadt, Germany), 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: "An encoder that switches whether or not to store a first parameter included in hypothetical reference decoder (HRD) parameters related to a decoding unit into a buffer...