US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on Dec. 23 for "Techniques for reconstructing downscaled video content" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,890, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Techniques for reconstructing downscaled video content" was invented by Christos G. Bampis (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Zhi Li (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments an endpoint application reconstructs downscaled videos. The endpoint application accesses metadata associated with a portion of a downscaled video that has a first resolution and was generated using a trained downscaling convolutional neural network (CNN). The endpoint application determines, based on the metadata, an upscaler that should be used when upscaling the...