US Patent Issued to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings on Nov. 11 for "Unification of context-coded bins (CCB) count method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,710, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Unification of context-coded bins (CCB) count method" was invented by Ya Chen (Cesson-Sevigne, France), Fabrice Le Leannec (Betton, France), Franck Galpin (Cesson-Sevigne, France) and Karam Naser (Cesson-Sevigne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, the CCB counting methods are unified between the transform residual coding process and Transform Skip (TS) residual coding process. In one example, in TS residual coding, the CCB counting excludes the coeff_sign_flag so that syntax used for CCB count is unified for the two residua...