US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Aug. 25 for "Encoder, decoder, and medium" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,088, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, and medium" was invented by Virginie Drugeon (Darmstadt, Germany), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan) and Yusuke Kato (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder includes memory and circuitry coupled to the memory. The circuitry is configured to: generate an encoded bitstream that includes a multi-layer structure; and store, in the encoded bitstream, a syntax element having a value indicating that a layer in the multi-layer structure to b...