ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,739, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to BIGO TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Method and device for dividing group of pictures based on scene switching, and storage medium" was invented by Dapeng Chen (Guangzhou, China) and Yiyan Feng (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for dividing a group of pictures (GOP) based on scene switching in encoding a video. The method includes determining whether a scene switching frame is present in a current GOP of received video data. It is then determined whether a last video frame of the current GOP is the scene switching frame. A first scene switching frame of the current G...