| CPC H04N 19/13 (2014.11) [H04N 19/124 (2014.11); H04N 19/60 (2014.11); H04N 19/70 (2014.11); H04N 19/91 (2014.11); H04N 19/184 (2014.11)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A system comprising:
a receiver configured to receive a bit stream; and
a decoder coupled to the receiver, wherein the decoder is configured to:
decode a first sequence of bins from the bit stream, wherein the first sequence of bins corresponds to a prefix of a remaining level of a transform coefficient represented by a truncated unary code, and wherein the truncated unary code is limited to a maximum codeword length of four;
debinarize the first sequence of bins to determine a value of the prefix;
decode a second sequence of bins from the bit stream, wherein the second sequence of bins corresponds to a suffix of the remaining level of the transform coefficient;
debinarize the second sequence of bins to determine a value of the suffix; and
combine the prefix and the suffix to yield the remaining level of the transform coefficient.
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