ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,778, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).
"Video player, video playback method, and program" was invented by Pierre Lebreton (Tokyo) and Kazuhisa Yamagishi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video player includes a processor; and a memory that includes instructions, which when executed, cause the processor to execute the following steps: predicting a future throughput by using a past throughput value; configuring a search space for identifying a quality adaptation schedule; extracting a plurality of paths in the search space; estimating, based on the future throughput, a quality of experience value for each path ...