US Patent Issued to Valve on Jan. 27 for "Dual detail video encoding with region specific quality control" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,706, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Valve Corp. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Dual detail video encoding with region specific quality control" was invented by Benedict Joseph Jackson (Bellevue, Wash.) and Charles Lohr (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are, among other things, techniques for implementing a dual detail encoding scheme in a distributed display system. At the host computer, an application may render a frame for a scene at a first resolution. The host computer may generate a two-dimensional (2D) array of pixels for the frame, encode the 2D array of pixels, and transmit the encoded pixel data to th...