US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on May 6 for "Method and apparatus for dynamic learning rates of substitution in neural image compression" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,720, issued on May 6, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for dynamic learning rates of substitution in neural image compression" was invented by Sheng Lin (San Jose, Calif.), Ding Ding (Palo Alto, Calif.), Wei Jiang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Wei Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Neural network based substitutional end-to-end (E2E) image compression (NIC) being performed by at least one processor and includes receiving an input image to an E2E NIC framework, determining a step size of the input image indicatin...