ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,819, issued on May 13, was assigned to Dolby Video Compression LLC (Wilmington, Del.).
"Entropy coding supporting mode switching" was invented by Valeri George (Berlin), Benjamin Bross (Berlin), Heiner Kirchhoffer (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin), Tung Nguyen (Berlin), Matthias Preiss (Berlin), Mischa Siekmann (Berlin), Jan Stegemann (Berlin), Thomas Wiegand (Berlin) and Christian Bartnik (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoder for decoding a data stream into which media data is coded has a mode switch configured to activate a low-complexity mode or a high-efficiency mode depending on the data stream, an entropy decoding engi...