US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Sept. 16 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,683, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" was invented by Masato Ohkawa (Toyama, Japan), Hideo Saitou (Ishikawa, Japan), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan) and Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For a location displaced by four samples in a vertical direction or a horizontal direction from a current location, the encoder performs a first determination of determining only whether the location displaced by four samples is a TU boundary, where the current locat...