ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,102, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Viewing distance based resolution control for video coding" was invented by Seppo Valli (Espoo, Finland) and Pekka Siltanen (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods relate to viewing distance based resolution and/or quality control for video coding. An illustrative system receives, such as at a server, a distance between a user and a device. The system includes selecting, based at least in part on the distance between the user and the device, a resolution and/or quality level for each layer of a plurality of layers of an image. The syst...