US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 17 for "Temporal initialization points for context-based arithmetic coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,092, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Temporal initialization points for context-based arithmetic coding" was invented by Vadim Seregin (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining one or more context values for at least one context used for encoding or decoding a current slice or picture, determining that a buffer for storing sets of temporal initialization points from two or more slices or pictures for context-based arithmetic coding is full, determining a first set of temporal initialization points associated with a slice or picture, from a...