US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on June 23 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" (Singaporean, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,078, 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 Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Han Boon Teo (Singapore), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan), Ru Ling Liao (Singapore), Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar (Singapore) and Hai Wei Sun (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder capable of properly handling an image to be encoded or decoded includes processing circuitry and memory connected to the processing circuitry. Using the memory, the processing circuitry: obtains parameters i...