ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,487, issued on June 17, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Multi-rate of computer vision task neural networks in compression domain" was invented by Ding Ding (Washington), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, processing circuitry decodes, from a coded bitstream that carries a compressed image, an index that points a value in a set of values of a parameter. A value change of the parameter adjusts a compression rate of the compressed image. The compressed image is generated by a neural network based encoder based on the parameter. The p...