US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Sept. 23 for "Video encoding method and apparatus, real-time communication method and apparatus, device, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,667, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoding method includes obtaining a current image frame, performing video image enhancement on a target region in the current image frame, to generate an image-enhanced image frame, the target reg...