US Patent Issued to Alibaba (China) on May 12 for "Content aware dataset generation and model selection for learned image compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,794, issued on May 12, was assigned to Alibaba (China) Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Content aware dataset generation and model selection for learned image compression" was invented by Yan Ye (San Diego), Wei Jiang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Wei Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may receive an input image block, and input the input image block into multiple models which may be trained using a plurality of different datasets of image blocks. Each model of the multiple models may be trained using a dataset having similar attributes. The system may determine a model having a highest compression efficiency from a...