US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Oct. 6 for "System and method for video encoding using constructed reference frame" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,870, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and method for video encoding using constructed reference frame" was invented by James Bankoski (Los Gatos, Calif.), Yaowu Xu (Saratoga, Calif.) and Paul Wilkins (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video coding using constructed reference frames may include generating, by a processor in response to instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, a reconstructed video. Generating the reconstructed video may include receiving an encoded bitstream. Video coding using constructed reference frames may include generating...