US Patent Issued to IMAX on June 17 for "No-reference visual media assessment combining deep neural networks and models of human visual system and video content/distortion analysis" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,741, issued on June 17, was assigned to IMAX Corp. (Mississauga, Canada).

"No-reference visual media assessment combining deep neural networks and models of human visual system and video content/distortion analysis" was invented by Zhou Wang (Waterloo, Canada), Jiheng Wang (Waterloo, Canada), Hojatollah Yeganeh (Waterloo, Canada), Kaiwen Ye (North York, Canada), Ahmed Badr (Waterloo, Canada) and Kai Zeng (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "No-reference (NR) quality assessment (VQA) of a test visual media input encoding media content is provided. The test video visual media input is decomposed into multiple-channel repre...