US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on April 22 for "Deep learning based image partitioning for video compression" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,344, issued on April 22, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Deep learning based image partitioning for video compression" was invented by Fabrice Leleannec (Cesson-Sevigne, France), Franck Galpin (Cesson-Sevigne, France), Sunil Jaiswal (Rennes, France) and Fabien Racape (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A block of video data is split using one or more of several possible partition operations by using the partitioning choices obtained through use of a deep learning-based image partitioning. In at least one embodiment, the block is split in one or more splitting operations using a convolut...