US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on Feb. 24 for "Techniques for reusing portions of encoded original videos when encoding localized videos" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,264, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Techniques for reusing portions of encoded original videos when encoding localized videos" was invented by Mark Watson (San Francisco) and Christopher Newton (Westlake Village, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a localized video encoding application encodes localized videos. In operation, the localized video encoding application computes a prediction frame based on a target frame of a localized video and at least a portion of a reference frame of a decoded original video. The localized video encoding application computes a residual ...