US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on March 3 for "Encoder, decoder, and medium using a flag indicating whether temporal motion vector prediction is enabled" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,205, issued on March 3, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, and medium using a flag indicating whether temporal motion vector prediction is enabled" was invented by Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan) and Yusuke Kato (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry encodes, into a sequence parameter set, a first parameter indicating that a change in a picture size is allowed for any of pictures, determines whether or not...