US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Aug. 19 for "Method and apparatus for optimizing end-to-end neural image compression framework" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,653, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for optimizing end-to-end neural image compression framework" was invented by Ding Ding (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Neural network based image compression using an optimized end-to-end (E2E) neural image compression (NIC) framework being performed by at least one processor and includes receiving an input image to an E2E NIC framework, processing the input image in its entirety using an encoder in the E2E NIC framework to obtain a first bitstream...