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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:
Mar. 18, 2025

Filed:

Aug. 02, 2018
Applicant:

Netflix, Inc., Los Gatos, CA (US);

Inventor:

Ioannis Katsavounidis, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

NETFLIX, INC., Los Gatos, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04L 43/16 (2022.01); H04L 65/612 (2022.01); H04L 65/70 (2022.01); H04L 65/75 (2022.01); H04N 19/132 (2014.01); H04N 19/147 (2014.01); H04N 19/179 (2014.01); H04N 19/33 (2014.01); H04N 21/234 (2011.01); H04N 21/2662 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/70 (2022.05); H04L 43/16 (2013.01); H04L 65/612 (2022.05); H04L 65/765 (2022.05); H04N 19/132 (2014.11); H04N 19/147 (2014.11); H04N 19/179 (2014.11); H04N 19/33 (2014.11); H04N 21/234363 (2013.01); H04N 21/23439 (2013.01); H04N 21/2662 (2013.01);
Abstract

A shot analyzer varies the resolution when generating encoded video sequences for streaming. The shot analyzer generates a first encoded video sequence based on a first resolution and a source video sequence that is associated with a video title. The shot analyzer then determines a first encoded shot sequence from multiple encoded shot sequences included in the first encoded video sequence based on quality metric(s). The first encoded shot sequence is associated with a first shot sequence included in the source video sequence. Subsequently, the shot analyzer generates a second encoded shot sequence based on a second resolution and the first shot sequence. The shot analyzer generates a second encoded video sequence based on the first encoded video sequence and the second encoded shot sequence. At least a first portion of the second encoded video sequence is subsequently streamed to an endpoint device during playback of the video title.


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