ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,967, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Systems and methods for signaling a normalization technique in video coding" was invented by Tianying Ji (Camas, Wash.) and Sachin G. Deshpande (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may be configured to receive a bitstream. The device may decode the bitstream according to a video coding technique. The device may determine a normalization technique from one or more normalization techniques. The device may perform the normalization technique on the decoded bitstream to generate feature data for input into a neural network. Normalizations techniques ...