ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,533, issued on June 17, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Multi-distribution entropy modeling of latent features in image and video coding using neural networks" was invented by Arunkumar Mohananchettiar (Bengaluru, India), Jay Nitin Shingala (Bangalore, India), Peng Yin (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Sean Thomas McCarthy (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and bitstream syntax are described for the entropy modeling of latent features in image and video coding using a combination of probability density functions. Using high-level syntax elements, an encoder may signal to compliant de...