US Patent Issued to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES on April 15 for "Enhanced video streaming and reference frame synchronization" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,991, issued on April 15, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Enhanced video streaming and reference frame synchronization" was invented by Qi Keith Wang (Cambridge, Great Britain), Ramin Ghorashi (Cambridge, Great Britain), Stephen John Bannister (Burwell, Great Britain) and Ilya Brailovskiy (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of video streaming are generally described. In some examples, a camera device periodically captures an image, communicates encoded frame data representing that image to a server, and decodes and stores the previously encoded frame data as a background picture. The server rece...