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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2014
Applicant:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Gal Chechik, Los Altos, CA (US);
Xiaoquan Yi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hrishikesh Aradhye, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 (2006.01); H04N 19/23 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/004 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are methods and apparatuses for compressing a video signal. In one embodiment, the method includes storing a function derived from a set of human ratings in a memory, identifying within at least a portion of the video signal at least one content-based feature, inputting the at least one identified content-based feature into the stored function, determining a compression ratio based on the function using a processor and generating a compressed video signal at the determined compression ratio.