ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,147, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to CHINA TELECOM CORPORATION LIMITED (Beijing).

"Image processing method and system, encoder, and computer readable storage medium" was invented by Huifen Wang (Beijing), Yuan Zhang (Beijing), Mingchuan Yang (Beijing) and Leping Shen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method of the present disclosure includes: for a feature matrix of each channel of an image output from an intermediate layer of a neural network: determining row(s) and column(s) having same feature values at edges of the feature matrix as row(s) to be compressed and column(s) to be compressed, deleting the feature values of ...