US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 17 for "Subjective distortion metric for rate distortion determinations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,740, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Subjective distortion metric for rate distortion determinations" was invented by Jaehong Chon (San Diego) and Athanasios Leontaris (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoding system is configured to determine, based on image data, a distortion metric for a prediction mode candidate based on 1) gradient similarity between a prediction block of the image data and a reconstructed prediction block of reconstructed image data generated based on the image data and 2) motion between two frames of the image data. The video encoding system is also ...