US Patent Issued to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING on July 8 for "Video compression and transmission techniques" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,965, issued on July 8, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco).

"Video compression and transmission techniques" was invented by Athanasios Leontaris (Burbank, Calif.) and Alexandros Tourapis (Burbank, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments feature families of rate allocation and rate control methods that utilize advanced processing of past and future frame/field picture statistics and are designed to operate with one or more coding passes. At least two method families include: a family of methods for a rate allocation with picture look-ahead; and a family of methods for average bit rate (ABR) cont...