US Patent Issued to Agora Lab on Dec. 16 for "Tile encoding bitrate allocation for low-latency video communication systems" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,037, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Agora Lab Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Tile encoding bitrate allocation for low-latency video communication systems" was invented by Mingyue Hao (Shanghai), Zesen Zhuang (Shanghai) and Sheng Zhong (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for allocating bitrate in video communications is disclosed. The method includes encoding, via an encoder, a video stream that is partitioned into tiles associated with a viewing angle of the video stream, whereby encoding the video stream includes allocating each of the tiles a bitrate. The method also includes determining an image quality ...