US Patent Issued to DOLBY VIDEO COMPRESSION on March 17 for "Context initialization in entropy coding" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,082, issued on March 17, was assigned to DOLBY VIDEO COMPRESSION LLC (San Francisco).

"Context initialization in entropy coding" was invented by Valeri George (Berlin), Benjamin Bross (Berlin), Heiner Kirchhoffer (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin), Tung Nguyen (Berlin), Matthias Preiss (Berlin), Mischa Siekmann (Berlin), Jan Stegemann (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoder includes an entropy decoder configured to derive a number of bins of the binarizations from the data stream using binary entropy decoding by selecting a context among different contexts and updating probability states associated ...