ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,857, issued on July 21, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).
"Encoding device and encoding method" was invented by Yuichi Kamiya (Ishikawa, Japan), Takuya Kawashima (Ishikawa, Japan), Hiroyuki Ehara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Akira Harada (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding device includes a control circuit which, when it has been determined that an input stereo signal is suitable to be encoded using a mid-side stereo technique, decides, according to a condition, whether to convert the input stereo signal into a mid-side signal in a time domain and apply first e...