Conditioning states are selected for coding a source from a plurality of potential conditioning states. The potential conditioning states represent a series of context events, such as a plurality of binary context events. According to a rule, potential conditioning states are partitioned into groups,...http://www.google.com/patents/US7587092?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7587092 - Layer-based context quantization with context partitioning
Layer-based context quantization with context partitioning