US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Feb. 4 for "Method and apparatus for video coding for machine vision" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,140, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for video coding for machine vision" was invented by Wen Gao (West Windsor, N.J.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for encoding video for machine vision and human/machine hybrid vision, including receiving at a hybrid codec, input including at least one of video or image data, the hybrid codec including a first and second codec wherein the first codec is a traditional codec designed for human consumption and the second codec is a learning-based codec designed ...