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. 12,439,062, 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 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 includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry determines whether a determined relationship between a total number of one or more layer groups and a total number of one or more parameters is satisfied. The one or more layer groups each include at least one output layer, and the one or ...