Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company, Limited

Kin Wing An

Chun Kit Hung

Disclosed is a context modeller () used in decoding data () encoded using Context Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding, said context modeler () comprising a Read Only Memory () for storing uninitialized context model values, said uninitialized context model values being stored in the Read Only Memory () in a manner that enables a plurality of uninitialized context model values to be read from the Read Only Memory () in a single clock cycle, an Arithmetic Logic Module () comprising a plurality of parallel processing paths (-), each said processing path comprising a plurality of pipeline stages, a Random Access Memory () and a memory controller () for determining, using the Arithmetic Logic Module () operating on said plurality of uninitialized context model values read from the Read Only Memory () in each clock cycle, initialized context model values for storage in the Random Access Memory () based upon header information in said incoming encoded data ().

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Kin Wing An