US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 13 for "History-based adaptive interpretation of context coded syntax elements for high bit-depth video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,856, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"History-based adaptive interpretation of context coded syntax elements for high bit-depth video coding" was invented by Dmytro Rusanovskyy (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for decoding video data can determine transform coefficients for a first block of a slice; derive a shift parameter for a second block of the slice based on the transform coefficients for the first block; receive one or more flags; determine a transform coefficient for the second block based on the one or more flags and based on the shift parameter;...