US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on July 7 for "Decoding method, encoding method, decoder, and, encoder" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,978, issued on July 7, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Decoding method, encoding method, decoder, and, encoder" was invented by Virginie Drugeon (Darmstadt, Germany), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan) and Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding method is a decoding method of decoding a current block of a video from a bitstream. The decoding method includes: decoding, from the bitstream, a prediction mode indicator indicating whether bi/uni mixed prediction is to be performed for the current block; decoding, from the bitstr...