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US 12,697,542 B2

Low-delay multi-pass frame-level rate control using a shared reference frame

US 12,697,542 B2 is a granted patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), dated 2026-08-04. Applicant: GOOGLE LLC. Its PDF downloads from this page without an account, up to 5 a day.

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Applicant
GOOGLE LLC
Inventors
Danny Hong; Ramachandra Tahasildar; Alex Sukhanov
Publication date
2026-08-04
Filing date
2023-11-06
Document type
B2 Granted patent
Also written as
US 12,697,542 B2 · US12697542 · 12697542

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.…

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