US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY on Dec. 30 for "End-to-end instance-separable semantic-image joint codec system and method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,319, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"End-to-end instance-separable semantic-image joint codec system and method" was invented by Weiyao Lin (Shanghai) and Shizhan Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end-to-end instance-separable semantic-image joint compression system and method, comprising: image encoder and decoder, mask encoder and decoder, union encoder, embedding extraction module, semantic graph encoder and decoder, entropy coding module, union entropy model, image entropy model and mask entropy model. This invention can fully utilize the redundancy between images and th...