US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 11 for "Separate probability initialization for context adaptive binary arithmetic coding for video coding" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,056, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Separate probability initialization for context adaptive binary arithmetic coding for video coding" was invented by Ikram Jumakulyyev (Grobenzell, Germany), Muhammed Zeyd Coban (Carlsbad, Calif.), Vadim Seregin (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of coding video data includes receiving an independently codable unit of video data, determining a first initial probability state for a first probability using a first probability initialization process, determining a second initial probability state for a second probability u...