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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,042, 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 Ryuichi Kanoh (Osaka, Japan), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan) and Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry in operation: determines whether the shape of a current chroma block to be split satisfies a first condition; generates one or more second candidates for a block partitioning method by eliminating one or more predetermi...