ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,510, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Encoders for improved image dithering" was invented by Innfarn Yoo (Mountain View, Calif.), Xiyang Luo (Mountain View, Calif.) and Feng Yang (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments allow for training of encoders (e.g., artificial neural networks (ANNs)) to facilitate dithering of images that have been subject to quantization in order to reduce the number of colors and/or size of the images. Such a trained encoder generates a dithering image from an input quantized image that can be combined, by addition or by some other proces...