ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,071, issued on March 18, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Bitrate-adaptive segmentation for video transcoding" was invented by Di Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sam John (Dublin, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bitrate-adaptive segmentation is performed for transcoding a video stream uploaded to an online video platform for hosting and later playback to platform users. The video stream is segmented into chunks based on prediction-based bit costs determined for frames of the video stream rather than based on scene changes detected within the video stream. The bitrate-adaptive segmentation includes determining ...