ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,390, issued on April 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Decoding and encoding of neural-network-based bitstreams" was invented by Semih Esenlik (Munich), Panqi Jia (Munich) and Elena Alexandrovna Alshina (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For picture decoding and encoding of neural-network-based bitstreams, a picture is represented by an input set of samples which is obtained from the bitstream. The picture is reconstructed from output subsets, which are generated as a result of processing the input set L. The input set is divided into multiple input subsets Li. The input subsets are each subject ...