US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on July 15 for "Substitutional quality factor learning in the latent space for neural image compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,329, issued on July 15, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Substitutional quality factor learning in the latent space for neural image compression" was invented by Wei Jiang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Wei Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Neural image compression using substitutional quality factor learning in a latent space, including receiving a compressed bitstream and a target quality factor indicating a target compression quality, calculating a decoded latent representation of the compressed bitstream, and calculating a reconstructed image based on the decode...