US Patent Issued to DEEPX on May 12 for "Scalable video coding for machine" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,821, issued on May 12, was assigned to DEEPX Co. LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Scalable video coding for machine" was invented by IlMyeong Im (Seoul, South Korea) and SunMi Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural processing unit (NPU) for decoding video or feature map is provided. The NPU may include at least one processing element (PE) for an artificial neural network, the at least one PE configured to receive and decode data included in a bitstream. The data included in the bitstream may include data of a base layer; or the data of the base layer and data of at least one enhancement layer. An NPU fo...