US Patent Issued to Alibaba Damo (Hangzhou) Technology on Oct. 7 for "Pre-analysis based image compression methods" (Chinese, Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,094, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Alibaba Damo (Hangzhou) Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Pre-analysis based image compression methods" was invented by Shurun Wang (Beijing), Zhao Wang (Hangzhou, China), Yan Ye (San Diego) and Shiqi Wang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides pre-analysis based methods for adaptively compressing image data consumed by machine vision tasks. An exemplary method includes: receiving a video sequence; encoding one or more input pictures associated with the video sequence; and generating a bitstream, wherein the encoding includes: performing instanc...