US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on July 22 for "Video streaming scaling using virtual resolution adjustment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,908, issued on July 22, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Video streaming scaling using virtual resolution adjustment" was invented by Bhavani Gopalakrishna Rao (San Jose, Calif.), Nicholas Cook (San Jose, Calif.) and James Howard (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, network conditions associated with a video stream are observed over time to determine a virtual scaling factor that may be applied to the images of one or more frames of the video stream to generate scaled images that may be appended with a padding region that maintains the original resolution of the video and/or video st...