US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on April 1 for "Residual decoding using conditional CABAC decoding and golomb-rice decoding" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,499, issued on April 1, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Residual decoding using conditional CABAC decoding and golomb-rice decoding" was invented by Yusuke Kato (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan) and Kiyofumi Abe (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoder includes circuitry and memory. In both of a first type of residual decoding where an inverse orthogonal transform is applied and a second type of residual decoding where the inverse orthogonal transform is skipped, wherein when a restriction on a number of CABAC processes ...