US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Oct. 14 for "Adaptive context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) initial state selection from coded pictures" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,614, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Adaptive context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) initial state selection from coded pictures" was invented by Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus including processing circuitry are provided. The processing circuitry determines previous probability information associated with each entropy coded region of multiple regions in a previous picture. The processing circuitry selects, based on (i) a location or a quantization parameter of an independently decoda...