US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on May 6 for "Reducing context coded and bypass coded bins to improve context adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) throughput" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,708, issued on May 6, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Reducing context coded and bypass coded bins to improve context adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) throughput" was invented by Vivienne Sze (Cambridge, Mass.) and Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) coding with a reduced number of context coded and/or bypass coded bins are provided. Rather than using only truncated unary binarization for the syntax element representing the delta quantization parameter and context coding all of the resulting bins as in the prior art,...