US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on March 17 for "Image encoder which determines whether to perform CIIP, image decoder, image encoding method, and image decoding method" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,066, issued on March 17, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Image encoder which determines whether to perform CIIP, image decoder, image encoding method, and image decoding method" was invented by Ru Ling Liao (Singapore), Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Jing Ya Li (Singapore), Han Boon Teo (Singapore), Hai Wei Sun (Singapore), Che Wei Kuo (Singapore), Yusuke Kato (Osaka, Japan), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan) and Takahiro Nishi (Osaka Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoder includes: circuitry; and a memory coupled to the circuitry. ...