US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 1 for "Entropy encoding and decoding apparatus and method for using the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,790, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Entropy encoding and decoding apparatus and method for using the same" was invented by Yinji Piao (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyungah Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minsoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kwangpyo Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An entropy decoding method may include obtaining, from a bitstream, information about a slice type, based on an occurrence probability of a symbol, performing arithmetic decoding on a current symbol corresponding to a syntax element, when the ...