US Patent Issued to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL on March 17 for "Golomb-Rice/EG coding technique for CABAC in HEVC" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,118, issued on March 17, was assigned to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Golomb-Rice/EG coding technique for CABAC in HEVC" was invented by Seung-Hwan Kim (Camas, Wash.), Louis J. Kerofsky (Camas, Wash.) and Christopher A. Segall (Camas, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system utilizing a high throughput coding mode for CABAC in HEVC is described. The system may include an electronic device configured to obtain a block of data to be encoded using an arithmetic based encoder; to generate a sequence of syntax elements using the obtained block; to compare an Absolute-3 value of the sequence or a parameter associated with the Ab...