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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2019
Filed:
May. 27, 2016
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Guangshuo Liu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Hilary Roache, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yifeng Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Siddarth Raghunathan, Castro Valley, CA (US);
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
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.