US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on July 8 for "Enhancement process for video coding for machines" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,978, issued on July 8, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Enhancement process for video coding for machines" was invented by Wen Gao (West Windsor, N.J.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for performing video coding for machine (VCM) image enhancement, including obtaining a coded image from a coded bitstream; obtaining enhancement parameters corresponding to the coded image; decoding the coded image using a VCM decoding module to generate a decoded image; generating an enhanced image using an enhancement module based on ...