US Patent Issued to GoPro on Nov. 18 for "Apparatus and methods for image encoding using spatially weighted encoding quality parameters" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,231, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Apparatus and methods for image encoding using spatially weighted encoding quality parameters" was invented by Balineedu Chowdary Adsumilli (San Francisco), Adeel Abbas (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Sumit Chawla (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Visual content that includes spatial portions is obtained. A determination is made that one of the spatial portions includes a face. Based on the determination, encoding quality parameters for the one of the spatial portions is identified. The encoding quality parameters are obtained by combining a first distor...