US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on May 13 for "Context-based binary arithmetic encoding and decoding" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,818, issued on May 13, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Context-based binary arithmetic encoding and decoding" was invented by Fabrice Leleannec (Mouaze, France), Tangi Poirier (Thorigne-Fouillard, France), Ya Chen (Rennes, France) and Edouard Francois (Bourg des Comptes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding method is disclosed. At least one context is first determined for encoding a syntax element associated with a block of a picture responsive to a current quantization parameter associated with the block. Second, the syntax element is context-based entropy encoded with the at least one...