US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on April 22 for "Machine learning (ML)-based rate control algorithm to find quantization parameter (QP)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,364, issued on April 22, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc..

"Machine learning (ML)-based rate control algorithm to find quantization parameter (QP)" was invented by Kannan Vairavan (San Mateo, Calif.) and Milan Mehta (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ML model that may be implemented by plural sub-modules including a Random Forest model is used to generate a quantization parameter (QP) for a video encoder based on various encoding factors input to the ML model including frame size and channel rate."

The patent was filed on March 6, 2023, under Application No. 18/179,256.

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