US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises, ETH Zurich (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich) on May 20 for "Contextual video compression framework with spatial-temporal cross-covariance transformers" (Swiss, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,404, issued on May 20, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.) and ETH Zurich (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich) (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Contextual video compression framework with spatial-temporal cross-covariance transformers" was invented by Zhenghao Chen (Sydney), Roberto Gerson De Albuquerque Azevedo (Zurich), Christopher Richard Schroers (Uster, Switzerland), Yang Zhang (Dubendorf, Switzerland) and Lucas Relic (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a system includes a first component to extract temporal features from a current frame being coded and a previous frame of a video. A...