US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Dec. 16 for "Multivariate rate control for transcoding video content" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,061, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Multivariate rate control for transcoding video content" was invented by Sam John (Dublin, Calif.), Balineedu Adsumilli (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Akshay Gadde (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A learning model is trained for rate-distortion behavior prediction against a corpus of a video hosting platform and used to determine optimal bitrate allocations for video data given video content complexity across the corpus of the video hosting platform. Complexity features of the video data are processed using the learning model to determine a rate-dist...