US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on Sept. 9 for "Encoder, decoder, and related non-transitory computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,732, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, and related non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan), Ryuichi Kanoh (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan) and Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide an encoder that generates a plurality of quantization matrix elements for a current block; generates a quantization matrix using the plurality of quantization matrix elements; and quantizes, using the quantization matrix, transform coefficients of the curren...