ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,493, issued on May 19, was assigned to ATEME (Velizy Villacoublay, France).
"Method for image compression and apparatus for implementing the same" was invented by Thomas Guionnet (Rennes, France) and Marwa Tarchouli (Grenoble, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encoding image data of an image divided into a plurality of pixel blocks using a machine learning algorithm, is proposed, which comprises, by a computing platform comprising a processor configured for implementing the machine learning algorithm, for a block of the pixel blocks: obtaining a block neighborhood set of at least one pixel of the image, wherein the at...