US Patent Issued to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS on Aug. 18 for "Methods and apparatus for improved entropy encoding and decoding" (New York, California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,066, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and apparatus for improved entropy encoding and decoding" was invented by Yang Hu (Troy, N.Y.), Joel Sole (San Diego), Xiaoan Lu (Princeton, N.J.), Peng Yin (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Yunfei Zheng (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are provided for improved entropy encoding and decoding. An apparatus includes a video encoder (200) for encoding at least a block in a picture by transforming a residue of the block to obtain transform coefficients, quantizing the transform coefficients to obtain quantized transfo...