US Patent Issued to VELOS MEDIA on July 29 for "Context initialization based on slice header flag and slice type" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,675, issued on July 29, was assigned to VELOS MEDIA LLC (Dallas).

"Context initialization based on slice header flag and slice type" was invented by Kiran Misra (Vancouver, Wash.) and Christopher Segall (Camas, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technique for initialization of encoders and decoders. In some cases, the decoder receives a slice and identifies if the slice is either a forward predicted B-slice or a backward predicted B-slice, and not both a forward and backward predicted B-slice, and based upon this identification initializes, using a P-slice technique, a context associated with the slice."

The patent was filed on Ma...