Patent 7804903 was granted and assigned to Intel on September, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method of decoding a stream of compression-encoded image data. The method includes supplying at least two values to an adder. At least one of the values is determined based at least in part on a type of a current syntax element in the stream of compression-encoded image data. The method also includes adding the at least two values at the adder to produce an index value. The method further includes using the index value to access a look-up table.