ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,225, issued on March 3, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Limiting a number of context coded bins for residue coding" was invented by Meng Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of video encoding includes performing context modeling to determine a context model for each of a number of bins of syntax elements corresponding to residues of a region of a transform skipped block in a current picture. The number of the bins of syntax elements being context coded does not exceed a maximum number of co...