US Patent Issued to Bitmovin on Dec. 16 for "Efficient two-pass encoding scheme for adaptive live streaming" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,084, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Bitmovin GmbH (Klagenfurt am Worthersee, Austria).

"Efficient two-pass encoding scheme for adaptive live streaming" was invented by Vignesh V. Menon (Klagenfurt am Worthersee, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (Klagenfurt am Worthersee, Austria) and Christian Timmerer (Klagenfurt am Worthersee, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for efficient two-pass encoding for live streaming are described herein. A method for efficient two-pass encoding may include extracting low-complexity features of a video segment, predicting an optimized constant rate factor (CRF) for the video segment using the l...