US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Oct. 27 for "Selecting a quantization value for encoding a picture" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,158, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Selecting a quantization value for encoding a picture" was invented by Naveen Srinivasamurthy (Bangalore, India), Soyeb Nagori (Bangalore, India) and Manoj Koul (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Several methods and systems for encoding pictures associated with video data are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes determining by a processing module, whether a picture is to be encoded based on at least one of a skip assessment associated with the picture and an encoding status of a pre-selected number of pictures preceding the picture in an enc...