US Patent Issued to SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY, KWAI on June 10 for "End-to-end deep generative network for low bitrate image coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,385, issued on June 10, was assigned to SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY (Santa Clara, Calif.) and KWAI INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"End-to-end deep generative network for low bitrate image coding" was invented by Yifei Pei (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ying Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nam Ling (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yongxiong Ren (San Jose, Calif.) and Lingzhi Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural network system, a method and an apparatus for image compression are provided. The neural network may include a generator including an encoder, an entropy estimator, and a decoder, where the encoder receives an input image and generates...