US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on July 29 for "Hierarchical audio/video or picture compression method and apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,736, issued on July 29, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Hierarchical audio/video or picture compression method and apparatus" was invented by Yunying Ge (Beijing), Jing Wang (Beijing), Yibo Shi (Beijing) and Shangyin Gao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides an audio/video or picture compression method and apparatus, which relates to the field of artificial intelligence (AI)-based audio/video or picture compression technologies, and to the field of neural network-based audio/video or picture compression technologies. The method includes: transforming a raw audio/vi...