US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 21 for "Tool selection for feature map encoding vs regular video encoding" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,463, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Tool selection for feature map encoding vs regular video encoding" was invented by Christopher James Rosewarne (Concord, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generating first encoded data and second encoded data. The apparatus comprises a determining unit for determining whether the apparatus generates encoded data including encoded data of a feature map based on a neural network. The apparatus also comprise an encoding unit for generating the first encoded data using a plurality of functions for encoding video data, in a case where the apparatus genera...