ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,239, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"High-fidelity generative image compression" was invented by George Dan Toderici (Mountain View, Calif.), Fabian Julius Mentzer (Zurich, Switzerland), Eirikur Thor Agustsson (Zurich, Switzerland) and Michael Tobias Tschannen (Zurich, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training an encoder neural network configured to receive a data item and to process the data item to output a compressed representation of the data item. In one aspect, a method include...