US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 17 for "Method, apparatus and system for encoding and decoding a tensor" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,703, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method, apparatus and system for encoding and decoding a tensor" was invented by Christopher James Rosewarne (Concord, Australia) and Thi Hong Nhung Nguyen (Gladesville, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of encoding a tensor into a bitstream, the tensor having a channel dimension. The method comprises generating a mean feature of the tensor, the mean feature being an average of the tensor over the channel dimension; quantising the generated mean feature to generate a quantised mean feature map; and inverse-quantising a reconstruction of the quanti...