US Patent Issued to Cinova Media on Jan. 28 for "Video quality improvements system and method for virtual reality" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,751, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Cinova Media (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Video quality improvements system and method for virtual reality" was invented by Domenico Guardini (Mountain View, Calif.), Mike Hodges (Mountain View, Calif.), David Hopkins (Mountain View, Calif.), Anurag Mendhekar (Mountain View, Calif.) and Pierre Seigneurbieux (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for improving the quality of video for virtual reality systems uses several different techniques to improve the quality of the video. The different techniques may include quantization parameter maps, gradient scaling, usi...