ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,347, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Combined upscaler and LCEVC encoder" was invented by Jun Hua Hou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed technique includes obtaining input video at a first resolution; upscaling the input video to a second resolution that is higher than the first resolution, using an encoder having a low complexity enhancement video coding encoder that omits at least one component, to generate upscaled video; and encoding the upscaled video using the encoder to generate encoded output video."

The patent was filed on Feb. 17, 2023, under Applicat...