ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,997, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Beijing YoJaJa Software Technology Development Co. Ltd. (Beijing).
"Prediction of rate distortion curves for video encoding" was invented by Chen Liu (Beijing), Wenhao Zhang (Beijing), Xuchang Huangfu (Beijing), Xiaobo Liu (Beijing) and Xuewei Meng (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method determines feature values for a portion of a video and a target configuration. The target configuration is associated with a parameter of an encoder and includes a set of bitrates and a resolution. A plurality of quality values is generated for the set of bitrates and the resolutio...