US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on Jan. 27 for "Method and an apparatus for encoding/decoding images and videos using artificial neural network based tools" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,979, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and an apparatus for encoding/decoding images and videos using artificial neural network based tools" was invented by Jean Begaint (Menlo Park, Calif.), Fabien Racape (San Francisco), Simon Feltman (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Akshay Pushparaja (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for encoding/decoding an image or a video using neural network are disclosed. In some embodiments, side-information is decoded from a bitstream that allows for adapting a first neural network-based decoder, the decoded side-inform...