US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on March 3 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, decoding method, and medium" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,234, issued on March 3, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, encoding method, decoding method, and medium" was invented by Virginie Drugeon (Darmstadt, Germany), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, 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: memory; and circuitry coupled to the memory and configured to generate an encoded bitstream. In the encoder, when a multi-layer structure is to be included in the encoded bitstream to be generated, the circuitry generates the encoded bi...