US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on Sept. 9 for "Image encoder, image decoder, image encoding method, and image decoding method" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,746, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Image encoder, image decoder, image encoding method, and image decoding method" was invented by Jing Ya Li (Singapore), Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Han Boon Teo (Singapore), Hai Wei Sun (Singapore), Che Wei Kuo (Singapore), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan) and Yusuke Kato (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoder is provided including circuitry and a memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry, in operation, responds to a size of a block sati...