ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,024, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Dolby Video Compression LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Sample array coding for low-delay" was invented by Valeri George (Berlin), Anastasia Henkel (Berlin), Heiner Kirchhoffer (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin) and Thomas Schierl (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The entropy coding of a current part of a predetermined entropy slice is based on, not only, the respective probability estimations of the predetermined entropy slice as adapted using the previously coded part of the predetermined entropy slice, but also probability estimations as used in the entropy coding of a spatially neighboring, in e...