US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms on July 8 for "Systems and methods for efficient video encoding" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,985, issued on July 8, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for efficient video encoding" was invented by Chun-Wei Chan (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for efficiently encoding video may include (i) determining, by a computing device, that a video file is a candidate for vertical-slice-based region-of-interest compression, (ii) identifying a video encoder that supports horizontal-slice-based compression but does not support vertical-slice-based compression, (iii) rotating each frame of the video file ninety degrees, and (iv) performing, by the ...