US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Aug. 25 for "Fast recovery of video quality using companion streams" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,109, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Fast recovery of video quality using companion streams" was invented by Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A source video received for encoding in a streaming protocol in which video is encoded in normal streams and companion streams. A first upscaled frame is generated by upscaling a first frame from a first resolution to a second resolution. Based on the first upscaled frame and a corresponding frame of the second resolution, a residue representing a difference between the first upscaled frame and the ...