US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on March 31 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method utilizing transform and inverse transform bases selected based on block size" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,068, issued on March 31, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method utilizing transform and inverse transform bases selected based on block size" was invented by Ryuichi Kanoh (Osaka, Japan), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Masato Ohkawa (Toyama, Japan) and Hideo Saitou (Ishikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder which transforms a current block to be encoded in an image to encode the current block includes circuitry and memory. The circuitry, using the memory...