ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,825, issued on May 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Resolution-based video encoding" was invented by Maneli Noorkami (Menlo Park, Calif.), Afshin Taghavi Nasrabadi (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Ranjit Desai (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject technology relate to encoding of video frames having content with a variable resolution that varies within the video frame. Aspects of the subject technology can provide an efficient encoding by using smaller macroblocks for lower resolution content within the video frame, and larger macroblocks for higher resolution content within the video f...