US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 4 for "Context-aware video codec based on machine learning" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,241, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Context-aware video codec based on machine learning" was invented by Jens Fredrik Pihl (Malmo, Sweden) and William Edward Reed (Jacksonville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and computer program product are provided for video encoding and decoding. A plurality of frames of video data are processed using a machine learning model to identify one or more regions of interest in the plurality of frames. The plurality of frames of video data are encoded by a video encoder such that one or more blocks of the plurality of frames of...