US Patent Issued to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL on Dec. 9 for "Signal coding using a generative model and latent domain quantization" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,216, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Signal coding using a generative model and latent domain quantization" was invented by Janusz Klejsa (Solna, Sweden), Lars Villemoes (Jarfalla, Sweden) and Per Hedelin (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a decoder configured to receive a finite bitrate stream that includes a quantized latent frame, where the quantized latent frame includes a quantized representation of a current frame of a signal in a latent domain different from a first domain; to generate a reconstructed latent frame from the quantized latent frame...