US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on Oct. 27 for "Encoding method, decoding method, and processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,181, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoding method, decoding method, and processing method" was invented by Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan) and Ryuichi Kanoh (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding method includes determining a mode to be applied to a current block, the mode including a sub-block mode and a first mode different from the sub-block mode, wherein in the first mode, inter-prediction parameters are inferred from a neighboring block neighboring the current block, wherein ...