US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on June 23 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,017, issued on June 23, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" was invented by Ryuichi Kanoh (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan) and Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding method includes: changing values of luma pixels in a first block and a second block to filter a first boundary between the first block and the second block, using clipping such that change amounts of the respective values are within respective luma clip widths, the luma pixels in the first block and the second block b...