US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 29 for "Artificial intelligence-based image encoding apparatus and method and decoding apparatus and method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,699, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Artificial intelligence-based image encoding apparatus and method and decoding apparatus and method" was invented by Quockhanh Dinh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kwangpyo Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding an image based on cross-channel prediction using artificial intelligence (AI) includes obtaining cross-channel prediction information by applying feature data for cross-channel prediction to a neural-network-based cross-channel decoder, obtaining a predicted image of a chroma image by performing ...