ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,514, issued on March 25, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Method and apparatus for image processing" was invented by Zibo Meng (Palo Alto, Calif.), Runsheng Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Chiuman Ho (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are method and apparatus for image processing. A neural network includes an encoding network, an intermediate network, and a decoding network including multiple input layers and an output layer. In the method, at an input layer of the decoding network, first output data is received from a previous layer, and a first operation is...