US Patent Issued to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT on Sept. 23 for "Reserved bit prediction for slice size control with pipelined video encoding" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,607, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Reserved bit prediction for slice size control with pipelined video encoding" was invented by Hung-Ju Lee (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique to determine an optimum number of reserved bits for use in video encoding. The bits per coding unit is calculated as a function of bitrate, frame rate and frame size. Then for each coding unit, N reserved bits candidates are selected. For each test video the number of packets per frame is identified and the average number of packets per frame is calculated. The best reserved bits ca...