US Patent Issued to SK TELECOM on Aug. 5 for "Apparatus and method for applying artificial neural network to image encoding or decoding" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,034, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SK TELECOM Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for applying artificial neural network to image encoding or decoding" was invented by Tae Young Na (Seoul, South Korea), Sun Young Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Seob Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Se Hoon Son (Seoul, South Korea), Hyo Song Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jeong Yeon Lim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to video encoding or decoding and, more specifically, to an apparatus and a method for applying an artificial neural network (ANN) to video encoding or decoding. The apparatus a...