US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on July 29 for "Simplified context selection for entropy coding of transform coefficient syntax elements" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,735, issued on July 29, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Simplified context selection for entropy coding of transform coefficient syntax elements" was invented by Vivienne Sze (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for entropy encoding syntax elements of transform coefficient levels in a video encoder to generate a compressed video bit stream is provided that includes selecting a context for a first significant coefficient flag corresponding to a first transform coefficient level in a 32x32 transform block, wherein the first transform coefficient level is at a lowest frequency position in the 32x32...