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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2019

Filed:

May. 27, 2016
Applicant:

Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Guangshuo Liu, Los Altos, CA (US);

Hilary Roache, Mountain View, CA (US);

Yifeng Huang, San Jose, CA (US);

Siddarth Raghunathan, Castro Valley, CA (US);

Assignee:

GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/147 (2014.01); H04N 19/184 (2014.01); H04N 19/17 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/147 (2014.11); H04N 19/17 (2014.11); H04N 19/184 (2014.11);
Abstract

The various embodiments described herein include a method performed at a camera device. The method includes: (i) capturing a stream of images using the image sensor; and, (ii) while capturing the stream of images: (a) encoding a first portion of the stream of images with a first bitrate; (b) transmitting the encoded first portion of the stream of images to a server system; (c) obtaining one or more transmission metrics for the transmitted first portion of the stream of images; (d) based on the one or more transmission metrics, encoding a second portion of the stream of images with a second bitrate, distinct from the first bitrate; and (e) transmitting the encoded second portion of the stream of images to the server system.


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