ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,091, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).
"Hybrid video encoding systems" was invented by Crystal Yeong-Pian Sau (Toronto), Wei Gao (Aurora, Canada), Baochun Li (Toronto) and Jiali Zhao (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hybrid video encoding for improved encoding quality and encoding throughput is described. In one or more implementations, a system includes a processor configured to selectively enable one of a plurality of video encoders to encode each frame of a video sequence based on frame type of that individual frame and a directional encoding preference for the video sequence, and out...