US Patent Issued to DOUYIN VISION (BEIJING), BYTEDANCE on Aug. 25 for "Variable-rate neural network based compression" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,074, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to DOUYIN VISION (BEIJING) Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Variable-rate neural network based compression" was invented by Zhaobin Zhang (San Diego), Semih Esenlik (San Diego), Yaojun Wu (Beijing), Yue Li (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego) and Li Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for processing video data is disclosed. A determination is made to resize an image with a first size to create a resized image with a second size. A conversion is performed between a visual media data and a bitstream based on the resized image. The conversion includes applyi...