US Patent Issued to Google on May 26 for "Co-optimization of hardware-based encoding and software-based encoding" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,252, issued on May 26, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Co-optimization of hardware-based encoding and software-based encoding" was invented by In Suk Chong (Mountain View, Calif.), Jeremy Christopher Dorfman (Burlington, Mass.) and Aki Kuusela (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media item to be provided to users of a platform is identified. The media item includes multiple frames. Metrics for the frames of the media item are obtained. A frame type associated with each of the frames is determined based on the metrics. The media item is determined, based on the frame type associated with each frames...