US Patent Issued to ARRIS Enterprises on March 24 for "Bit depth variable for high precision data in weighted prediction syntax and semantics" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,674, issued on March 24, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"Bit depth variable for high precision data in weighted prediction syntax and semantics" was invented by Yue Yu (San Diego) and Limin Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Particular embodiments provide a variable, BitDepth, that may be set at a value based on a number of bits used to represent pixels in pictures of a video. The variable may be used in syntax elements in HEVC, such as the HEVC range extension, but other coding standards may be used. By using the variable, different resolutions for the video may be accommodated during the encoding...