US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on Nov. 25 for "Image encoder and related non-transitory computer readable medium for image decoding" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,720, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Image encoder and related non-transitory computer readable medium for image decoding" was invented by Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan), Ryuichi Kanoh (Osaka, Japan), Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Ru Ling Liao (Singapore), Hai Wei Sun (Singapore), Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar (Singapore), Han Boon Teo (Singapore) and Jing Ya Li (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder includes circuitry and a memory coupled to the circuitry, wherein the circuitry, in operation,...