US Patent Issued to Alibaba Group Holding on July 15 for "Neural network based in-loop filtering for video coding" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,350, issued on July 15, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Neural network based in-loop filtering for video coding" was invented by Zhao Wang (Beijing), Changyue Ma (Beijing), Ru-Ling Liao (Beijing) and Yan Ye (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for performing training and executing of a multi-density neural network in video processing. An exemplary method comprises: receiving a video stream comprising a plurality of pictures; processing the plurality of pictures using a first branch of a first block in the neural network, wherein the neural networ...