US Patent Issued to PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY on April 29 for "Feature pyramid warping for video frame interpolation" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,346, issued on April 29, was assigned to PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY (Portland, Ore.).

"Feature pyramid warping for video frame interpolation" was invented by Feng Liu (Portland, Ore.) and Simon Niklaus (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and storage media are described for motion estimation in video frame interpolation. Disclosed embodiments use feature pyramids as image representations for motion estimation and seamlessly integrates them into a deep neural network for frame interpolation. A feature pyramid is extracted for each of two input frames. These feature pyramids are wrapped together with the input...