US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Jan. 13 for "Realtime pre-encoding content-adaptive GPU image dithering" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,459, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Realtime pre-encoding content-adaptive GPU image dithering" was invented by Richard Xie (Cupertino, Calif.), Ramachandra Tahasildar (Cupertino, Calif.), Danny Hong (New York), Alex Sukhanov (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Albert Julius Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Beril Erkin (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Real-time pre-encoding dithering techniques mitigate or eliminate banding and other graphical artifacts in video frames prior to such video frames being encoded for transmission to and display by one or more client devices. For each of one or mo...