ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,540, issued on June 17, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China) and GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Image processing, network training and encoding methods, apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Lu Yu (Dongguan, China), Bingjie Zhu (Dongguan, China) and Zhenyu Dai (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method, an encoding method, an image processing apparatus, and an encoding apparatus are provided. The image processing method includes the following operations. An encoded bitstream is received from a trained encoder. The encoded bitstr...