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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2022
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Danny Hong, New York, NY (US);
Ramachandra Tahasildar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Alex Sukhanov, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A multi-pass encoding operation using a shared reference frame is implemented to encode one or more gaming frames into a game stream. The multi-pass encoding operation includes producing a shared reference frame based upon a second-pass reference frame used by a second pass encoding of the multi-pass encoding operation. The encoding operation also includes performing a first encoding pass on a current frame using the shared reference frame. As a result of the first encoding pass, an estimated complexity for the current frame is determined. A second pass encoding is then performed on the current frame according to the second-pass reference frame and the estimated complexity, resulting in an encoded frame. This encoded frame is then transmitted as part of a stream to a client system.