US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Aug. 12 for "Efficient context model computation design in transform coefficient coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,036, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Efficient context model computation design in transform coefficient coding" was invented by Jingning Han (Santa Clara, Calif.), James Zern (San Francisco), Linfeng Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ching-Han Chiang (San Jose, Calif.) and Yaowu Xu (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoded bitstream is decodable by a processor configured to execute instructions to store, in a first line buffer, first values of a first scan-order diagonal line scanned immediately before a current scan-order diagonal line of a transform block; and store, in a second l...