US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on March 17 for "Encoding device, decoding device, encoding method, and decoding method" (Singaporean, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,990, issued on March 17, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoding device, decoding device, encoding method, and decoding method" was invented by Srikanth Nagisetty (Singapore), Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Hiroyuki Ehara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Akira Harada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding device comprising: a quantization circuit that generates a quantization parameter that includes information about a vector quantization codebook; and a control circuit that sets the number of available bits according to conditions for encoding based on the differen...