ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,024, issued on March 25, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Method and systems for optimized content encoding" was invented by Dan Grois (Beer-Sheva, Israel), Alexander Giladi (Princeton, N.J.), Yasser Syed (Philadelphia) and Ali Begen (Philadelphia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder (e.g., a Versatile Video Coding (VVC) encoder, etc.) may make real-time encoding decisions to vary a bitrate of a content item (e.g., high-resolution video, streaming content, a movie, a show/program, etc.) by upsampling and/or downsampling portions (e.g., frames/slices, group of pictures (GOP), coding units (CU), c...