ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,851, issued on May 13, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Context model reduction" was invented by Jing Ye (San Jose, Calif.), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.), Cheung Auyeung (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for video coding. In some examples, an apparatus includes processing circuitry that receives a bitstream. The bitstream includes coded information representing a current bin of a syntax element for a block in a picture. The syntax element corresponds to one of an index of a first prediction mode and an i...