US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Nov. 25 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,732, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" 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 includes memory and circuitry coupled to the memory. The circuitry stores a total number of temporal sub-layers in a bitstream Into either a picture timing supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message or a buffering period SEI message, and encodes ...