US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Dec. 2 for "Context adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) probability estimation for video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,898, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Context adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) probability estimation for video coding" was invented by Jie Dong (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vadim Seregin (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoder is configured to receive bin values according to a context model, wherein the context model includes one or more probability states and the bin values correspond to one or more syntax elements of the video data; determine a first shift value based on the received bin values; determine a second shift value based on the received bin ...