US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on June 9 for "Image encoding device, image decoding device, image encoding method, and image decoding method" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,411, issued on June 9, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Image encoding device, image decoding device, image encoding method, and image 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: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for video coding. The systems include, for ex...