ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,858, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to 214 TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mclean, Va.).
"Saliency-based compression" was invented by Nezare Chafni (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Shaun Moore (Siesta Key, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include obtaining a machine learning model configured to label media files of a given type. The method may include obtaining a saliency map including multiple elements corresponding to aspects of the given type of media files, each element corresponding to encoding parameters. A given encoding parameter of an associated element may be based on an identified salience of the associated element in the ma...