US Patent Issued to Google on July 8 for "Optimal format selection for video players based on predicted visual quality using machine learning" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,027, issued on July 8, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Optimal format selection for video players based on predicted visual quality using machine learning" was invented by Yilin Wang (Mountain View, Calif.), Yue Guo (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Balineedu Chowdary Adsumilli (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods are disclosed for optimal format selection for video players based on visual quality. The method includes generating a plurality of reference transcoded versions of a reference video, obtaining quality scores for frames of the plurality of reference transcoded versions of the ...