ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,066, issued on April 21, was assigned to SIGMASTAR TECHNOLOGY LTD. (Xiamen, China).

"Video encoding method, video encoding device, and image processing device" was invented by Guan-Lin Yu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoding method for encoding a video including multiple frames, each containing multiple blocks, includes the following steps: reading multiple first characteristic data of a first frame from an external memory to a memory; reading multiple pixel data of a second frame from the external memory to the memory, the second frame being subsequent to the first frame; generating multiple second characterist...