US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on June 24 for "Encoding method, real-time communication method, apparatus, device, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,001, issued on June 24, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoding method, real-time communication method, apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Jia Zhang (Guangdong, China), Xiaoxiang Yang (Guangdong, China), Sijia Chen (Guangdong, China), Jian Cao (Guangdong, China), Yongcheng Huang (Guangdong, China) and Hongbin Cao (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding method includes pre-encoding a current video frame in a video stream, to obtain a pre-encoded current video frame, when there is no I frame in M encoded video frames that have been encoded before the current vide...