US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Feb. 17 for "Acceleration of bypass binary symbol processing" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,749, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Acceleration of bypass binary symbol processing" was invented by Vivienne Sze (Dallas) and Madhukar Budagavi (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encoding a video sequence in a video encoder to generate a compressed video bit stream is provided that includes binarizing a plurality of syntax elements, wherein each binarized syntax element comprises a string of one or more binary symbols (bins), wherein a bin is one selected from a context-coded bin and bypass bin, encoding the context-coded bins of the binarized syntax elements using binary arithm...