US Patent Issued to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL on Sept. 8 for "Video encoding using pre-processing" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,641, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (London).

"Video encoding using pre-processing" was invented by Guido Meardi (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a technique for video encoding. The technique comprises downsampling at a downsampler (820), an input video stream at a first resolution (805) to a second resolution (825), the second resolution being lower than the first resolution. The technique uses a set of encoders to encode signals derived from the input video stream at the first spatial resolution and the second spatial resolution. There is also provided a pre-processing stage (83...