US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Sept. 9 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,773, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" was invented by Virginie Drugeon (Darmstadt, Germany), 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: "An encoder includes: circuitry; and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: controls whether to change a resolution of a picture from a resolution of a previous picture preceding the picture in one of display order and encoding order, according to a constraint that allo...