MUMBAI, India, April 10 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202647036167 A) filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation Of America, Torrance, U.S.A., on March 25, for 'decoding device, encoding device, decoding method, and encoding method.'

Inventor(s) include Abe Kiyofumi.

The application for the patent was published on April 10, under issue no. 15/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "This decoding device comprises a circuit and a memory connected to the circuit. The circuit acquires, from a bit stream, an image and a parameter associated with the image, and the parameter includes modality information indicating the image class of the image."

The patent ap...