US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on March 18 for "Systems and methods for regularization-free multi-hypothesis arithmetic coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,077, issued on March 18, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for regularization-free multi-hypothesis 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 including a syntax element with a corresponding alphabet of M elements, a first set of respective probabilities of occurrence for the M elements of the syntax element; and a secon...