US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 3 for "Image and video coding using machine learning prediction coding models" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,208, issued on March 3, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Image and video coding using machine learning prediction coding models" was invented by Debargha Mukherjee (Cupertino, Calif.), Urvang Joshi (Mountain View, Calif.), Yue Chen (Kirkland, Wash.) and Sarah Parker (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video coding may include generating, by a processor, a decoded frame by decoding a current frame from an encoded bitstream and outputting a reconstructed frame based on the decoded frame. Decoding includes identifying a current encoded block from the current frame, identifying a prediction coding model for ...