US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on March 31 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,071, issued on March 31, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method" was invented by Hai Wei Sun (Singapore), Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Han Boon Teo (Singapore), Jing Ya Li (Singapore), Che Wei Kuo (Singapore), Chu Tong Wang (Singapore), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan) and Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder: includes circuitry, and memory coupled to the circuitry; stores a first parameter into a bitstream, the first parameter indicating whether a syntax element related...