US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Jan. 20 for "Encoding method and apparatus, decoding method and apparatus, device, storage medium, and computer program product" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,995, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoding method and apparatus, decoding method and apparatus, device, storage medium, and computer program product" was invented by Jue Mao (Hangzhou, China), Yin Zhao (Hangzhou, China), Dequan Yu (Hangzhou, China) and Lian Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When probability estimation is performed in encoding and decoding processes, probability distribution of an unquantized image feature is estimated based on a hyperprior feature of the unquantized image feature via a first probability distribution estimation network, and th...