US Patent Issued to Realtek Semiconductor on Aug. 25 for "Encoder and associated encoding method" (Chinese, American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,073, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (HsinChu, Taiwan).

"Encoder and associated encoding method" was invented by Yi-Chen Tseng (HsinChu, Taiwan), Wei Li (Suzhou City, China), Weimin Zeng (San Jose, Calif.), Chi-Wang Chai (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Wujun Chen (Suzhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an encoding method, which includes steps of: determining a first quantization parameter of a first superblock of an image frame; determining a binary code for the first superblock; determining whether binary code information of the first superblock is greater than a fir...