US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Dec. 2 for "Diffusion-based data compression" (Dutch, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,905, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Diffusion-based data compression" was invented by Noor Fathima Khanum Mohamed Ghouse (Amsterdam), Jens Petersen (Amsterdam), Tianlin Xu (London), Guillaume Konrad Sautiere (Amsterdam) and Auke Joris Wiggers (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described for processing image data using a residual model that can be configured with an adjustable number of sampling steps. For example, a process can include obtaining a latent representation of an image and processing, using a decoder of a machine learning model, the latent representation of t...