US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on July 1 for "Efficient offloading of video frame processing tasks in edge-assisted augmented reality" (Indiana, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,190, issued on July 1, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Efficient offloading of video frame processing tasks in edge-assisted augmented reality" was invented by Jiayi Meng (West Lafayette, Ind.), Zhaoning Jonny Kong (West Lafayette, Ind.), Yu Charlie Hu (West Lafayette, Ind.), Mun Choi (Castle Pines, Colo.) and Dhananjay Lal (Englewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality (AR) device captures a first image frame of a first scene in a real world. The AR device compresses the first image frame using a same bitrate across an entirety of the first image frame to generate a first comp...