US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on Sept. 23 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, decoding method, and recording medium" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,591, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, encoding method, decoding method, and recording medium" was invented by Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan), Ryuichi Kanoh (Osaka, Japan), Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar (Singapore), Ru Ling Liao (Singapore), Hai Wei Sun (Singapore), Han Boon Teo (Singapore) and Jing Ya Li (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder partitions into blocks using a set of block partition modes. The set of block partition modes includes a...