ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,196, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to WUHAN TCL CORPORATE RESEARCH Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China).
"Image compression method and apparatus thereof" was invented by Yunlei Xiao (Wuhan, China) and Yangxing Liu (Wuhan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image compression method includes: obtaining a target image and a target code rate corresponding to the target image; determining a first code rate parameter corresponding to the target code rate; and inputting the target image and the first code rate parameter into an image compression model, that has been trained, for processing to obtain a compressed image with the target code rate, w...