US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Nov. 11 for "Image encoding method, real-time communication method, device, storage medium, and program product" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,722, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image encoding method, real-time communication method, device, storage medium, and program product" was invented by Jian Cao (Shenzhen, China), Hongbin Cao (Shenzhen, China), Xiaoxiang Yang (Shenzhen, China), Sijia Chen (Shenzhen, China), Yongcheng Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Jia Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding method and apparatus, a real-time communication method, a device, a storage medium, and a program product. The method includes: obtaining a first image frame in a video stream, encoding the first imag...