US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 31 for "Systems and methods of buffering image data between a pixel processor and an entropy coder" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,074, issued on March 31, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods of buffering image data between a pixel processor and an entropy coder" was invented by Shengqi Yang (Carlsbad, Calif.), Haifeng Xu (San Diego) and Sean Ni (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a ring buffer. The device also includes an entropy encoder coupled to the ring buffer and configured to retrieve, from the ring buffer, first image data of a first image frame of a sequence of image frames. The entropy encoder is also configured to encode the first image data to generate first bitstream data. The device also includes...