US Patent Issued to ATI Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Adaptive minimum quantization parameter for video encoding" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,700, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Adaptive minimum quantization parameter for video encoding" was invented by Dong Liu (Markham, Canada), Haibo Liu (Markham, Canada) and Jin Li (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is provided. The technique includes receiving encoder settings; determining a minimum quantization parameter ("QP") for a frame based on the encoder settings; and encoding the frame based on the minimum QP. In some examples, the encoder settings include items such as a target bitrate, a frame rate, and a resolution of a video to be encoded. In some exampl...