US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on July 1 for "Method and apparatus for CABAC-based entropy coding" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,722, issued on July 1, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for CABAC-based entropy coding" was invented by Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A picture decoding method performed by a decoding device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises the steps of: deriving a context index for a split flag syntax element on the basis of split availability information of a current block; determining a context model on the basis of the derived context index; decoding a value of the split flag syntax element on the basis of a CABAC, using the determined con...