US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Nov. 11 for "Content-adaptive signal-to noise-ratio-guided two-pass video encoding for cloud gaming" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,711, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Content-adaptive signal-to noise-ratio-guided two-pass video encoding for cloud gaming" was invented by Richard Xie (Cupertino, Calif.), Ramachandra Tahasildar (Cupertino, Calif.), Alex Sukhanov (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Danny Hong (New York) and Beril Erkin (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for encoding game content for real-time cloud-gaming, and more specifically to using an adaptive statistical model in a moving window of previous frames up to a current frame to adaptively compute a lower-bound of a quantization parameter (QP) t...