Title (en) Method for a hybrid Golomb-Elias gamma coding Title (de) Verfahren für eine hybride Golomb-Elias-Gamma-Kodierung Title (fr) Procédé de codage de Golomb-Elias gamma hybride Publication EP 2141815 A1 20100106 (EN) Application EP 08159434 A 20080701 Priority EP 08159434 A 20080701 Abstract (en) The invention relates to a method for encoding of a bit amount of a data section and to a corresponding decoding method. Furthermore, the invention relates to encoding, decoding, transmission and/or storage of audio and/or video data wherein said method for encoding of a bit amount of a data section and/or said corresponding decoding method are used in processing of the audio and/or video data. Said method for encoding of a bit amount of a data section comprises the steps of encoding said bit amount indicating integer as a first number of equally valued bits followed by a stop bit of different value wherein said first number equals said bit amount increased by a threshold value. Using said method, quotients of values larger than a threshold can be encoded using unary as well as binary code wherein quotients of values smaller than the threshold can be encoded in unary code. IPC 8 full level H03M 7/40 (2006.01) CPC (source: EP) H03M 7/40 (2013.01) Citation (applicant) • ELIAS, P.: "Universal Codeword Sets and Representations of the Integers", IEEE TRANS. ON INF. THEO., vol. IT-21, no. 2, March 1975 (1975-03-01), pages 194 - 203, XP000946246, DOI: doi:10.1109/TIT.1975.1055349 • GOLOMB, S.W.; JULY 1966: "Run-length Coding", IEEE TRANS. ON INF. THEO., vol. IT-12, no. 4, pages 399 - 401 • RICE, R.F.: "Jet Propulsion Laboratory", March 1979, JPL PUBLICATION, article "Same Practical Universal Noiseless Coding Techniques", pages: 79 - 22 Citation (search report) • [XA] KIRCHHOFFER H ET AL: "Context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding for frame-based animated mesh compression", MULTIMEDIA AND EXPO, 2008 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON, IEEE, PISCATAWAY, NJ, USA, 23 June 2008 (2008-06-23), pages 341 - 344, XP031312728, ISBN: 978-1-4244-2570-9 • [A] ANONYMOUS: "Exponential-Golomb coding", WIKIPEDIA, 27 February 2008 (2008-02-27), pages 1 - 2, XP002524330, Retrieved from the Internet <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Exponential-Golomb_coding&oldid=194444499> [retrieved on 20090415] • [A] LOWELL WINGER: "Putting a Reasonable Upper Limit on Binarization Expansion", JOINT VIDEO TEAM (JVT) OF ISO/IEC MPEG & ITU-T VCEG(ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 AND ITU-T SG16 Q6), XX, XX, no. JVT-C162-L, 10 May 2002 (2002-05-10), XP030005273 • [A] MARPE D ET AL: "Context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding in the H.264/AVC video compression standard", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY, IEEE SERVICE CENTER, PISCATAWAY, NJ, US, vol. 13, no. 7, 1 July 2003 (2003-07-01), pages 620 - 636, XP011099255, ISSN: 1051-8215 Designated contracting state (EPC) AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MT NL NO PL PT RO SE SI SK TR Designated extension state (EPC) AL BA MK RS DOCDB simple family (publication) EP 2141815 A1 20100106; BR PI0914733 A2 20151020; CA 2727892 A1 20100107; CN 102077468 A 20110525; EP 2297857 A1 20110323; JP 2011526747 A 20111013; JP 5542808 B2 20140709; KR 20110049787 A 20110512; MX 2010014341 A 20110225; TW 201004360 A 20100116; US 2011150097 A1 20110623; US 8724709 B2 20140513; WO 2010000662 A1 20100107 DOCDB simple family (application) EP 08159434 A 20080701; BR PI0914733 A 20090625; CA 2727892 A 20090625; CN 200980125496 A 20090625; EP 09772362 A 20090625; EP 2009057940 W 20090625; JP 2011515382 A 20090625; KR 20117002438 A 20090625; MX 2010014341 A 20090625; TW 98121488 A 20090626; US 73725809 A 20090625.