US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on July 14 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,137, issued on July 14, 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: "A decoder which decodes a video. At least two items of prediction information are obtained for a first partition included in the video....