US Patent Issued to ATI Technologies on Feb. 25 for "Spatial block-level pixel activity extraction optimization leveraging motion vectors" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,295, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Spatial block-level pixel activity extraction optimization leveraging motion vectors" was invented by Mehdi Saeedi (Markham, Canada) and Boris Ivanovic (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing spatial block-level pixel activity extraction optimization leveraging motion vectors are disclosed. Control logic coupled to an encoder generates block-level pixel activity metrics for a new frame based on the previously calculated block-level pixel activity data from a reference frame. A cost is calculated ...