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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,077, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, encoding method, decoder, and decoding method" was invented by Masato Ohkawa (Toyama, Japan), Hideo Saitou (Ishikawa, Japan), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan) and Ryuichi Kanoh (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder which encodes a current block of a picture includes a processor and memory. Using the memory, the processor: determines whether intra prediction is to be used for the current block; and when it is determined that intra predictio...