ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,389, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Video compression using optical flow" was invented by George Dan Toderici (Mountain View, Calif.), Eirikur Thor Agustsson (Zurich), Fabian Julius Mentzer (Zurich), David Charles Minnen (Mountain View, Calif.), Johannes Balle (San Francisco) and Nicholas Johnston (San Jose, Calif.).
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 compressing video data. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving a video sequence of frames; generating, using a flow prediction network, an op...