US Patent Issued to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings on June 23 for "Flexible allocation of regular bins in residual coding for video coding" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,026, issued on June 23, was assigned to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Flexible allocation of regular bins in residual coding for video coding" was invented by Fabrice Leleannec (Mouaze, France), Antoine Robert (Mezieres sur Couesnon, France) and Ya Chen (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least one embodiment, a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding a video is based on a CABAC coding of bins where a high-level constraint on the maximum usage of regular CABAC coding of bins is enforced. In other words, a budget of regular coded bins is allocated over a picture area that is larger than a codin...