US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 27 for "Context modeling in entropy coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,957, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Context modeling in entropy coding" was invented by Yeqing Wu (Cupertino, Calif.), Yunfei Zheng (Santa Clara, Calif.), Alican Nalci (Cupertino, Calif.), Yixin Du (Milpitas, Calif.), Hilmi Enes Egilmez (Santa Clara, Calif.), Guoxin Jin (San Diego), Alexandros Tourapis (Los Gatos, Calif.), Jun Xin (San Jose, Calif.) and Hsi-Jung Wu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved lossless entropy coding techniques for coding of image data include selecting a context for entropy coding based on an ordered scan path of possible context locations. A symbol f...