US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Nov. 18 for "Method and apparatus for encoding or decoding a picture using a neural network" (German, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,131, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for encoding or decoding a picture using a neural network" was invented by Elena Alexandrovna Alshina (Munich), Han Gao (Shenzhen, China) and Semih Esenlik (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and systems for encoding a picture and decoding a bitstream that may represent an encoded picture. During encoding and decoding, rescaling operations are applied to rescale an input to a size that can be processed by a layer of a neural network. Embodiments disclosed herein provide methods for rescaling tha...