System and method for data reduction based on scene content

W Hensler, F Key, S Safreed, S Squires - US Patent 10,448,012, 2019 - Google Patents
A production system determines which areas or portions of a video file (eg, for a scene) are
static and which areas contain motion. Instead of steaming redundant image data for the …

Variable image data reduction system and method

W Hensler, F Key, S Safreed, S Squires - US Patent 10,440,361, 2019 - Google Patents
Variable image data reduction is applied to at least a subset of each frame of a video file.
The variable image data reduction includes reducing data by one or more techniques, such …

Analytic reprocessing for data stream system and method

S Safreed, W Hensler, F Key, S Squires - US Patent 10,536,693, 2020 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A head mounted display (HMD) identifies viewing trends for a video based
on multiple viewings of the video by users having different user characteristics. The analysis …

Reducing quantization artifacts using neighbor-based weighted dithering

JC Chou - US Patent 9,106,888, 2015 - Google Patents
H04N 9/26(201 4. 01) Video encoders described herein may modify the quantization H04N
9/76(201 4.015 typically performed by video encoders to reduce quantization H04N …

Selective prediction signal filtering

AW Grange, J Bankoski, PG Wilkins, Y Xu - US Patent 9,344,729, 2016 - Google Patents
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Adaptive noise reduction engine for streaming video

S Spears, H Wu, W Zhang, S Prabhu - US Patent 9,924,200, 2018 - Google Patents
An adaptive video noise reduction (AVNR) engine reduces noise in streaming video. The
engine reads embedded information in the streaming video describing attributes of the …

Motion estimation aided noise reduction

J Bankoski, S Holmer - US Patent 9,131,073, 2015 - Google Patents
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4,736,446 A 4/1988 Reynolds et al. 4,816,906 A 3, 1989 Kummerfeldt et al. 4,868,764 A 9 …

Low-complexity tonality-adaptive audio signal quantization

M Dietz, G Fuchs, C Helmrich, G Markovic - US Patent 10,468,043, 2019 - Google Patents
The invention provides an audio encoder for encoding an audio signal so as to produce
therefrom an encoded signal, the audio encoder including: a framing device configured to …

Image decoding method and device therefor, and image encoding method and device therefor

J Kim, KW Yoo, SD Kim, C Han - US Patent 10,506,243, 2019 - Google Patents
A video encoder and decoder are described. The encoder operates on luma data and
chroma data. The luma data is split into two channels. The channel split can be based on …

Video processing with static and dynamic regions and method for use therewith

XG Zhao, X Li - US Patent 9,716,888, 2017 - Google Patents
A system for processing a video signal includes a static region identification and separation
module for generating static region image data corresponding to a static region of the video …