ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,344, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Advanced video coding using a key-frame library" was invented by Jerrold Richard Randell (Waterloo, Canada) and Stuart James Myron Nicholson (Waterloo, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including generating at least one of a key frame and an inter-predicted frame based on a received video stream including at least one video frame, the inter-predicted frame being generated using information from the key frame, determining whether the key frame is stored at a receiving device, selecting video data as one of the key frame or a key frame identifier ...