ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,967, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Video encoding dynamic reference frame selection" was invented by Benjamin Eliot Lundell (Seattle) and Ivan Simoes Gaspar (West Linn, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method includes obtaining video frames to transmit. The video frames are encoded and transmitted via a network connection. A probability that a last video frame will be or was received is determined. A next frame is encoded and transmitted as a P-frame that identifies changes from a previously transmitted frame. The previously transmitted frame is sele...