US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Dec. 2 for "Decoding method, encoding method, decoding device, and encoding device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,901, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Decoding method, encoding method, decoding device, and encoding device" was invented by Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan) and Noritaka Iguchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding method includes: determining a numerical range based on whether intra prediction or inter prediction is to be used to decode encoded first information of a current three-dimensional point; and switching a context between a first context and a second context to entropy-decode the encoded first informat...