US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Feb. 18 for "Simplified binary arithmetic coding engine" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,668, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Simplified binary arithmetic coding engine" was invented by Vivienne Sze (Cambridge, Mass.) and Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of entropy coding in a video encoder is provided that includes assigning a first bin to a first single-probability bin encoder based on a probability state of the first bin, wherein the first single-probability bin encoder performs binary arithmetic coding based on a first fixed probability state, assigning a second bin to a second single-probability bin encoder based on a probability state of th...