1. Date of download: 5/31/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Flow charts of entropy decoding methods for slice data: (a) conventional method and (b) proposed method. Figure Legend: From: Bitstream decoding processor for fast entropy decoding of variable length coding– based multiformat videos Opt. Eng. 2014;53(6):063102. doi:10.1117/1.OE.53.6.063102

2. Date of download: 5/31/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Flow of removing emulation prevention bytes (EPBs) to obtain the raw byte sequence payload (RBSP) from a byte stream NAL unit. Figure Legend: From: Bitstream decoding processor for fast entropy decoding of variable length coding– based multiformat videos Opt. Eng. 2014;53(6):063102. doi:10.1117/1.OE.53.6.063102

3. Date of download: 5/31/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Architecture of bitstream access module performing Getbits, Showbits, and Skipbits operations. Figure Legend: From: Bitstream decoding processor for fast entropy decoding of variable length coding– based multiformat videos Opt. Eng. 2014;53(6):063102. doi:10.1117/1.OE.53.6.063102

4. Date of download: 5/31/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Wrong sequential process with simple EPB removal: (a) part of a bitstream before EPB removal and (b) part of a bitstream after EPB removal. Figure Legend: From: Bitstream decoding processor for fast entropy decoding of variable length coding– based multiformat videos Opt. Eng. 2014;53(6):063102. doi:10.1117/1.OE.53.6.063102

5. Date of download: 5/31/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Hardware architecture of “I_STREAMS” instruction. Figure Legend: From: Bitstream decoding processor for fast entropy decoding of variable length coding– based multiformat videos Opt. Eng. 2014;53(6):063102. doi:10.1117/1.OE.53.6.063102

6. Date of download: 5/31/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Operation of EPB removal in “I_STREAMS”: (a) the status of registers before EPB removal and (b) the status of registers after EPB removal. Figure Legend: From: Bitstream decoding processor for fast entropy decoding of variable length coding– based multiformat videos Opt. Eng. 2014;53(6):063102. doi:10.1117/1.OE.53.6.063102

7. Date of download: 5/31/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Reorganized tables for coeff_token syntax element according to the number of leading zeros. Figure Legend: From: Bitstream decoding processor for fast entropy decoding of variable length coding– based multiformat videos Opt. Eng. 2014;53(6):063102. doi:10.1117/1.OE.53.6.063102

8. Date of download: 5/31/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Decoding cycles of four configurations for HD sequences with H.264/AVC. Figure Legend: From: Bitstream decoding processor for fast entropy decoding of variable length coding– based multiformat videos Opt. Eng. 2014;53(6):063102. doi:10.1117/1.OE.53.6.063102

9. Date of download: 5/31/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Decoding cycles of four configurations for HD sequences with MPEG-4 Visual. Figure Legend: From: Bitstream decoding processor for fast entropy decoding of variable length coding– based multiformat videos Opt. Eng. 2014;53(6):063102. doi:10.1117/1.OE.53.6.063102