US Patent Issued to Alibaba Group Holding on Oct. 28 for "Convolutional-neutral-network based filter for video coding" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,353, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Convolutional-neutral-network based filter for video coding" was invented by Zhao Wang (Beijing) and Yan Ye (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for convolutional-neural-network (CNN) based filter for video coding. An exemplary method includes: applying motion estimation to a target coding block, to determine a reference block of the target coding block; inputting, to a convolutional neural network (CNN) filter, image data associated with the target coding block and the reference block; and ...