US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on March 18 for "Encoding techniques for optimizing distortion and bitrate" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,940, issued on March 18, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Encoding techniques for optimizing distortion and bitrate" was invented by Ioannis Katsavounidis (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shot analyzer varies the resolution when generating encoded video sequences for streaming. The shot analyzer generates a first encoded video sequence based on a first resolution and a source video sequence that is associated with a video title. The shot analyzer then determines a first encoded shot sequence from multiple encoded shot sequences included in the first encoded video sequence based on quality metric(s...