US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Jan. 27 for "Video encoding and distribution methods" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,958, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Video encoding and distribution methods" was invented by Vivienne Sze (Cambridge, Mass.) and Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encoding a video sequence is provided that includes entropy encoding syntax elements representative of transform coefficients generated as the video sequence is processed, wherein entropy encoding syntax elements representative of a transform coefficient includes binarizing the syntax elements representative of the transform coefficient to generate a plurality of binary symbols (bins), coding a ...