ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,934, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA (Chengdu, China).

"Zero-delay panoramic video bit rate control method considering temporal distortion propagation" was invented by Ce Zhu (Chengdu, China), Xu Yang (Chengdu, China), Lei Luo (Chengdu, China), Hongwei Guo (Chengdu, China), Chang Duan (Chengdu, China), Jin Du (Chengdu, China) and Jingjing Hou (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zero-delay panoramic video bit rate control method that considers distortion temporal propagation aims to optimize target bit allocation and achieve global rate-distortion optimization in c...