US Patent Issued to ATI TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 2 for "Metric driven adaptive processing for video encoders" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,873, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Metric driven adaptive processing for video encoders" was invented by Boris Ivanovic (Markham, Canada) and Mehdi Saeedi (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining, at a data reduction module, metrics of a first block of an input video frame and a second block of a reference frame. The data reduction module includes an analysis module and a filter. A perceptual importance of the first block of the input video frame is determined at the analysis module using the metrics. An entropy of the input video frame provided to an en...