US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on Jan. 20 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,023, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" was invented by Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan), Ryuichi Kanoh (Osaka, Japan), Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Ru Ling Liao (Singapore), Hai Wei Sun (Singapore), Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar (Singapore), Han Boon Teo (Singapore) and Jing Ya Li (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder, when sub-block encoding is to be performed, determines a plurality of sub-blocks in a first image block, the plurality of s...