US Patent Issued to ATI Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Adaptive digital content preprocessing based on bitrate" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,800, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Adaptive digital content preprocessing based on bitrate" was invented by Marvin Younan (Maple, Canada), Ihab Amer (Stouffville, Canada) and Feng Pan (Richmond Hill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adaptive digital content preprocessing techniques based on a bitrate are described. In an implementation, a parameter of a preprocessing module is set based on a target bitrate. The parameter specifies an amount of preprocessing to be performed in preprocessing digital content. Preprocessed digital content is generated by preprocessing the digital conten...