ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,721, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Content-adaptive online training method and apparatus for post-filtering" was invented by Ding Ding (Washington), Roman Chernyak (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses, for video decoding and encoding. The apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to receive an image/video comprising one or more blocks and metadata for a machine task associated with the image/video. The metadata specifies neural network post-filtering characteristics for mach...