US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY on Oct. 7 for "Variable-bit-rate image compression method and system, apparatus, terminal, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,046, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"Variable-bit-rate image compression method and system, apparatus, terminal, and storage medium" was invented by Wenrui Dai (Shanghai), Shaohui Li (Shanghai), Chenglin Li (Shanghai), Junni Zou (Shanghai) and Hongkai Xiong (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a variable-bit-rate image compression method and system, an apparatus, a terminal, and a storage medium. The variable-bit-rate image compression method includes: obtaining an initial feature map from a to-be-encoded image; quantizing the initial feature map by a dea...