US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on Oct. 7 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,031, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoder includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry, in a first operating mode, derives first motion vectors for a first block obtained by splitting a picture, using a first inter prediction scheme, and generates a prediction image corresponding to the first block, by referring to s...