ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,651, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"CABAC inherited context initialization" was invented by Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.), Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry determines, a use of an inherited context initialization in a context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) for decoding a current portion of a video seq...