US Patent Issued to ATI TECHNOLOGIES on June 10 for "Dynamic motion estimation parameter modification for video encoding" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,445, issued on June 10, was assigned to ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Dynamic motion estimation parameter modification for video encoding" was invented by Wei Gao (Markham, Canada), Ihab Amer (Markham, Canada), Haibo Liu (Markham, Canada), Gabor Sines (Markham, Canada), Feng Pan (Markham, Canada), Crystal Sau (Markham, Canada), Dong Liu (Markham, Canada) and Minghao Zhu (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To leverage an amount of unused bandwidth at a hardware encoder to generate motion estimation data, a processing unit includes a hardware encoder configured to perform a first encoding job including encoder se...