ENTROPY CODING COEFFICIENTS USING JOINT CONTEXT MODEL Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC H04N19/13 

FIELD: physics, computer engineering.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to computer engineering. A method of coding video data comprises maintaining a plurality of context models for entropy coding transform coefficients of the video data, wherein the plurality of context models includes one or more context models that are each used for a different transform unit size and at least one joint context model used for two or more transform unit sizes; selecting the joint context model shared by a first transform unit and a second transform unit; selecting contexts for the transform coefficients associated with one of the first transform unit or the second transform unit according to the joint context model; and entropy coding the transform coefficients of said one of the transform units using context adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) based on the selected contexts.

EFFECT: reduced amount of memory needed to store contexts and probabilities on video coders and decoders.

34 cl, 9 dwg