Patent Document ID: 20030198405
Application ID: 10124011
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for decreasing the time of Video Optimization, comprising the steps of: (a) providing a video processing system that utilizes a heuristic optimization framework for video image evaluation of a video image input, wherein said video processing system includes a plurality of genetic algorithms; (b) testing a plurality of system optimization designs comprising unique combinations of the plurality of genetic algorithms applied to optimize the video image so as to result in plurality of modified images; (c) assigning a fitness value to each of the plurality of system optimizations in step (b) based on an objective image quality metric evaluation of the modified images; (d) storing each of the tested system optimization designs including a respective modified image and associated fitness value in a memory; (e) prior to performing a subsequent video image evaluation, determining whether a proposed system optimization design comprises one or more particular combinations of genetic algorithms that have been previously tested in step (b) and stored in the memory; and one of: (f)(i) retrieving the results of the tested system optimization design comprising said one or more particular combinations of genetic algorithms to find an optimum solution for the subsequent video image evaluation; or (f)(ii) testing any combination of genetic algorithms for optimizing the subsequent video image evaluation that had not been previously tested and stored in step (b); and (g) finding an optimum solution for the subsequent video image evaluation based on results from step (f).