US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on April 22 for "Method and apparatus for multi-learning rates of substitution in neural image compression" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,075, issued on April 22, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for multi-learning rates of substitution in neural image compression" was invented by Ding Ding (Palo Alto, Calif.), Wei Jiang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sheng Lin (San Jose, Calif.), Wei Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Neural network based substitutional end-to-end (E2E) image compression (NIC) being performed by at least one processor and includes receiving an input image to an E2E NIC framework, determining a substitute image based on a training m...