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. 12,579,989, 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), Hiroyuki Ehara (Kanagawa, Japan), Akira Harada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Chong Soon Lim (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding device is provided with: a quantizing circuit which generates quantization parameters including first information on a vector quantization codebook, and second information on code vectors included in the codebook; and a control circuit which employs the second numb...