US Patent Issued to Sony Group on April 22 for "Video encoding using context adaptive binary arithmethic coding or bypass encoding of data related to a multi-direction linear model chroma mode" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,352, issued on April 22, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Video encoding using context adaptive binary arithmethic coding or bypass encoding of data related to a multi-direction linear model chroma mode" was invented by Stephen Mark Keating (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Karl James Sharman (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Adrian Browne (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Am image data encoding apparatus includes an entropy encoder to encode data items representing image data by an encoding system using a context adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) encoding system and a bypass encoding system. The ...