US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on April 22 for "Systems and methods for division-free probability regularization for arithmetic coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,398, issued on April 22, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for division-free probability regularization for arithmetic coding" was invented by Madhu Peringassery Krishnan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various embodiments described herein include methods and systems for coding video. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining video data that includes a first syntax element with a corresponding alphabet of M elements, and obtaining respective probabilities of occurrence for the M elements. The method further...