ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,528, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image AI-coding method and device, and image AI-decoding method and device" was invented by Jaehwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jongseok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Chaeeun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An AI decoding apparatus includes a memory storing instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to obtain AI data related to AI down-scaling of an original image and image data generated as a result of encoding a first image, obtain a second image co...