US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on May 20 for "Context modeling of transform coefficient syntax elements" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,430, issued on May 20, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Context modeling of transform coefficient syntax elements" was invented by Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.), Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of video decoding in a decoder is provided. A first template magnitude of a first transform coefficient in a specific frequency region of the transform block is determined. The first template magnitude is a first single value representing magnitudes of a first local template of the first transform coefficient. A first context model is identified for codin...