US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Oct. 21 for "Methods and devices for video codec performance measurement and evaluation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,403, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods and devices for video codec performance measurement and evaluation" was invented by Ding Ding (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to video coding/decoding and particularly for evaluating codec performance. One method includes obtaining a first plurality of anchor data points; obtaining a second plurality of test data points; analyzing monotonicity conditions of the first plurality of anchor data points and the second plurality of test dat...