US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on April 7 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,321, issued on April 7, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Canada).

"Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" was invented by Takashi Hashimoto (Hyogo, Japan), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan) and Ryuichi Kanoh (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding method is provided for encoding a picture to generate a coded stream. The encoding method includes: generating a first prediction image of a current block included in a current picture by referring to a first region included in a reference picture differen...