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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8188895 | Digital signal coding method and apparatus, digital signal decoding apparatus, digital signal arithmetic coding method and digital signal arithmetic decoding method In a bit stream syntax containing compressed video slice data for compressed video data of a slice structure, a slice header for compressed video slice data has attached thereto a slice start code, a register reset flag indicating whether a register value, which des... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8174414 | Methods and devices for load balancing in parallel entropy coding and decoding Devices and methods for entropy decoding a bitstream of encoded data by extracting a plurality of encoded subsequences from a payload field of the bitstream for parallel decoding on a set of parallel entropy decoders. The method includes dividing the payload of conc... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8138956 | CABAC encoder and CABAC encoding method A CABAC encoding method includes: receiving first and second coefficient flags (Sig, Last); detecting coefficient flags according to positions of the detected coefficient flags and control signal (Sig_first); generating first bin and second bin (bin_val_1, bin_val_2... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8106799 | Data compression and decompression using parallel processing The present disclosure includes apparatus, systems and techniques relating to pipelined processing. In some implementations, a method performed by a data processing device includes storing data in a memory module. The method includes processing the stored data in ac... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8094049 | Digital signal coding method and apparatus, digital signal decoding apparatus, digital signal arithmetic coding method and digital signal arithmetic decoding method A digital signal coding apparatus and method for making a compression coding by dividing a digital signal in predetermined transmission units are disclosed. The apparatus includes an arithmetic coding unit, a binarization unit, a probability of occurrence generation... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094048 | Method of decoding syntax element in context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding decoder and decoding device therefor A method and device for decoding a syntax element are provided. The method includes reading candidate context models which correspond to a syntax element to be decoded; determining a context index increment for the syntax element; selecting a candidate context model... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8077064 | Method and device for buffer-based interleaved encoding of an input sequence A method for encoding an input sequence of symbols. The method includes, sequentially, for each symbol in the input sequence, determining an estimated probability for that symbol based on a context model, identifying a codeword associated with a sequence of symbols ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072359 | Binary arithmetic coding device An object of the present invention is to provide a binary arithmetic coding device that allows real-time processing with a higher image quality. At a timing at which a ternary data string for a target bit is outputted, an updated coding range width and an updated ra... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8063801 | Encoding and decoding methods and devices using a secondary codeword indicator A method for encoding an input sequence of symbols as a plurality of codewords including primary codewords and secondary codewords, and a method of decoding the plurality of codewords. The codewords are output as a bitstream including an associated codeword type ind... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8013765 | Modular scaleable processing engine for accelerating variable length coding A mechanism for efficient CAVLC coding in a hardware implementation of a H.264 coder is provided. In an embodiment of the present invention, multiple modular CAVLC engines that each process one sub-macroblock of data are used. An assembler engine that combines the C... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8013766 | Device and method for coding a data signal and device and method for decoding a data signal In a method for encoding and an encoder statistical information is generated and said statistical information (LSB=F(MSB) about the reconstruction values to be used during reconstruction (sometimes called “inverse quantization”) is added to the encoded data sign... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7994951 | Digital signal coding method and apparatus, digital signal decoding apparatus, digital signal arithmetic coding method and digital signal arithmetic decoding method In a bit stream syntax containing compressed video slice data for compressed video data of a slice structure, a slice header for compressed video slice data has attached thereto a slice start code, a register reset flag indicating whether a register value, which des... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990297 | Encoding and decoding methods and devices employing dual codesets A method for encoding an input sequence of symbols to produce a bitstream and a method of decoding the bitstream to generate a reconstructed binary sequence. Encoding employs an encoding tree having primary codewords associated with leaf nodes and secondary codeword... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7982641 | Context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding engine A system including a binarization module, an encoding module, and a prediction module. The binarization module is configured to binarize a syntax element and to generate symbols. The encoding module is configured to encode the symbols using context-adaptive binary a... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7978103 | Code amount estimating device, image coding apparatus including the code amount estimating device, and code amount estimating method To provide a code amount estimating device which can perform, at high speed and with high precision, estimation of code amount obtained after arithmetic coding. The code amount estimating device includes a context index calculation unit which calculates a context in... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978102 | Multi-bin CABAC decision bin decoder A binary arithmetic decoding device may include a first and second lookup table each receive signal output from a first register. A third lookup table receives signal output from the first lookup table and a fourth lookup table receives signal output from the second... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978101 | Encoder and decoder using arithmetic stage to compress code space that is not fully utilized An encoder/decoder architecture including an arithmetic encoder that encodes the MSB portions of a Factorial Pulse Coder output, and that encodes an output of a first-level source encoder, e.g., MDCT. Sub-parts (e.g., frequency bands) of portions (e.g., frames) of t... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7973683 | Apparatus and method for lossless coding and decoding A lossless coding and/or decoding apparatus and method. The lossless coding apparatus may read a probability model corresponding to each of a plurality of context groups. Here, the probability model stored in a memory may be generated by grouping a context. The loss... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7961122 | Multi-bin CABAC bypass bin decoder A parallel based 5 bypass bin CABAC decoder may include a 3 bypass bins decoder appropriately coupled to a 2 bypass bins decoder. The 3 bypass bins decoder may have a first input receiving a bitstream, a second input receiving range values, a first output outputting... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7956776 | Arithmetic decoding apparatus Disclosed herein is an arithmetic decoding apparatus including an instruction decoder configured to decode an arithmetically encoded data decoding instruction to be executed for carrying out an arithmetic-decoding process of arithmetically decoding arithmetically en... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7948408 | Entropy decoding methods and apparatus using most probable and least probable signal cases Methods and apparatus for entropy decoding are disclosed. Compressed input data representing one or more signals is loaded into one or more registers. A first candidate value for a most probable signal case is prepared from the input data. A second candidate value f... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944377 | Method, medium and apparatus for quantization encoding and de-quantization decoding using trellis Provided are a method and apparatus for quantization encoding and de-quantization decoding using a trellis. Unlike a trellis coded quantization (TCQ) index, by classifying quantization levels to which cosets are allocated and allocating indexes to the quantization l... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944376 | Technique for improving modulation performance of translational loop RF transmitters A transmit signal generated by the baseband processor in a translational loop type RF transmitter is “pre-distorted” so as to counter act magnitude distortion and group delay variation imposed by a narrow PLL signal filter. The pre-distortion occurs in two steps... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7932843 | Parallel CABAC decoding for video decompression A method of video decoding is provided that includes receiving a data stream comprising a sequence of syntax elements that were compressed using context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC), such that the encoding of each bin of a bin string representative of a... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7928869 | Digital signal coding method and apparatus, digital signal decoding apparatus, ditigal signal arithmetic coding method and digital signal arithmetic decoding method In a bit stream syntax containing compressed video slice data for compressed video data of a slice structure, a slice header for compressed video slice data has attached thereto a slice start code, a register reset flag indicating whether a register value, which des... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928868 | Entropy decoding device An entropy decoding device offers all nodes on a decoding tree, and a most probable symbol for each node, and predicts presumptive information of a next node. The entropy decoding device decodes an encoded bit stream, and output a decoded content that includes real ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7898445 | Entropy coding apparatus An entropy coding apparatus configured to categorize each binarized symbol according to a corresponding bit position and a target arithmetic coding mode, and configured to parallelly perform arithmetic coding of a plurality of symbols belonging to an identical categ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7889103 | Method and apparatus for low complexity combinatorial coding of signals To reduce the complexity of the encoding/decoding of pulse positions and/or pulse magnitudes associated with complex combinatorial computations, a method and structure for encoding and decoding of pulse position and/or pulse magnitudes requires fewer computations of... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7884743 | Arithmetic decoding device Disclosed herein is an arithmetic decoding device including: an arithmetic decoding unit configured to decode coded data resulting from arithmetic coding on a basis of a context variable indicating a probability state and a most probable symbol; a plurality of arith... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7868793 | Methods and devices for coding and decoding of SML type documents by similarities The invention relates to methods and devices for binary coding and decoding by similarities for structured documents After having decomposed the data to code into a series of symbols, each item of data being at least partially represented by a symbol, and having sel... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7864087 | Methods and systems for modifying the statistical distribution of symbols in a coded message A method for coding a message of a plurality of m-state symbols into a coded message of n-state symbols wherein n>m is disclosed. A method to make the distribution of states of n-state symbols a uniform distribution is also disclosed. A coding rule is initiated base... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864086 | Mode switched adaptive combinatorial coding/decoding for electrical computers and digital data processing systems Embodiments described herein may include example embodiments of a method, article and apparatus for compressing data utilizing adaptive combinatorial encoding with either specified occurrences or specified data length which may be used for communicating between two ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7859438 | Digital signal coding method and apparatus, digital signal decoding apparatus; digital signal arithmetic coding method, and digital signal arithmetic decoding method In a bit stream syntax containing compressed video slice data for compressed video data of a slice structure, a slice header for compressed video slice data has attached thereto a slice start code, a register reset flag indicating whether a register value, which des... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7839312 | Coder A coder has a binarizing circuit (130) for converting multivalued data into a binary symbol sequence, the multivalued data being generated from an input signal and having a plurality of contexts, an arithmetic code amount approximating circuit (200) fo... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7839311 | Architecture for multi-stage decoding of a CABAC bitstream Techniques for optimizing the Context-based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC) bitstream decoding are disclosed. In one configuration, a device has a first processing circuit operative to decode a Context-based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC) bitstr... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7834785 | CABAC type encoding device and method An encoding device and method, of CABAC type, for an initial stream of binary digital information intended to generate an outgoing stream to form video images, after decoding, the method included the following steps: bit-by-bit analysis of the successive series of b... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7830284 | Entropy encoding apparatus, entropy encoding method, and computer program An entropy encoding apparatus comprises: a binarization unit configured to convert an input syntax element into binarized data; a context calculation unit configured to generate a context index; a context memory unit configured to hold context information; and an ar... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7825835 | Method and system for encoded video compression Embodiments of the claimed subject matter provide a method and system for performing data compression by encoding input into Exp-Golomb code. In one embodiment, data compression of data input is achieved via encoding as unsigned Exp-Golomb code. The method is achiev... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7825834 | Scalable audio data arithmetic decoding method, medium, and apparatus, and method, medium, and apparatus truncating audio data bitstream A scalable audio data arithmetic decoding method, medium, and apparatus, and a method, medium, and apparatus truncating an audio data bitstream. The arithmetic decoding method of decoding a scalable arithmetic coded symbol may include arithmetic decoding of a symbol... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7821430 | Arithmetic decoding apparatus Disclosed herein is an arithmetic decoding apparatus that decodes encoded data while updating first and second state variables based on first and second context variables. The first context variable represents a probability state. The second context variable represe... | 10/26/2010 |
