Patents by Inventor Flavio Benussi

Flavio Benussi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for variable bit-rate control in video encoding systems and computer program product therefor
    Patent number: 7349474
    Abstract: A method for controlling the bit-rate of a bitstream of encoded video signals at a variable bitrate, the bitstream being generated by compressing a video sequence of moving pictures, wherein each picture comprises a plurality of macroblocks of pixels compressed by any of transform coding, temporal prediction, bi-dimensional motion compensated interpolation or combinations thereof, to produce any of I and/or P and/or B frames, the method involving quantization of said macroblocks effected as a function of a quantization parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Daniele Bagni, Flavio Benussi, Bruno Biffi
  • Method and apparatus for variable bit-rate control in video encoding systems and computer program product therefor
    Publication number: 20040037357
    Abstract: A method for controlling the bit-rate of a bitstream of encoded video signals at a variable bitrate, the bitstream being generated by compressing a video sequence of moving pictures, wherein each picture comprises a plurality of macroblocks of pixels compressed by any of transform coding, temporal prediction, bi-dimensional motion compensated interpolation or combinations thereof, to produce any of I and/or P and/or B frames, the method involving quantization of said macroblocks effected as a function of a quantization parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.I.
    Inventors: Daniele Bagni, Flavio Benussi, Bruno Biffi