ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,106, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).
"Adaptive block switching with deep neural networks" was invented by Cong Zhou (Foster City, Calif.), Grant A. Davidson (Burlingame, Calif.) and Mark S. Vinton (Alameda, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for predicting transform coefficients representing frequency content of an adaptive block length media signal, by receiving a frame and receiving block length information indicating a number of quantized transform coefficients for each block in the frame, the number of quantized transform coefficie...