US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on July 29 for "Adaptive neural image compression with smooth quality control by meta-learning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,992, issued on July 29, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Adaptive neural image compression with smooth quality control by meta-learning" was invented by Wei Jiang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Wei Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for adaptive neural image compression with smooth quality control by meta-learning includes receiving an input image and a target quality control parameter; generating quality-adaptive weight parameters of an encoding neural network using shared encoding parameters and adaptive encod...