US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on Sept. 16 for "Techniques for limiting the influence of image enhancement operations on perceptual video quality estimations" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,685, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Techniques for limiting the influence of image enhancement operations on perceptual video quality estimations" was invented by Zhi Li (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a tunable VMAF application reduces an amount of influence that image enhancement operations have on perceptual video quality estimates. In operation, the tunable VMAF application computes a first value for a first visual quality metric based on reconstructed video content and a first enhancement gain limit. The tunable VMAF application computes a sec...