US Patent Issued to IMAX on Aug. 4 for "Video asset quality assessment and encoding optimization to achieve target quality requirement" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,238, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to IMAX Corp. (Mississauga, Canada).

"Video asset quality assessment and encoding optimization to achieve target quality requirement" was invented by Zhou Wang (Waterloo, Canada), Hojatollah Yeganeh (Waterloo, Canada), Kai Zeng (Kitchener, Canada), Jiheng Wang (Waterloo, Canada) and Abdul Rehman (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to the assessment on how well and consistent the quality of a video asset satisfies a given target quality level or a time-varying target quality curve, and the optimization on encoding configuration to achieve the bes...