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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
May. 27, 2015
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Lars Henrik Ellner, Mountain View, CA (US);
Turaj Zakizadeh Shabestary, Mountain View, CA (US);
Niklas Enbom, Mountain View, CA (US);
GOOGLE INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for reusing audio streams in an audio mixing environment such that processing resources (e.g., CPU cycles) are not wasted on encoding the same audio streams multiple times (e.g., more than once). Instead, processing resources are conserved without comprising audio quality. The methods described herein are particularly useful when a participant transitions from using a shared encoder to using the participant's own encoder, and when the participant transitions from using the participant's own encoder to using a shared encoder.