US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on May 19 for "Encoding and decoding method, and apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,495, issued on May 19, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoding and decoding method, and apparatus" was invented by Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China), Yin Zhao (Hangzhou, China) and Lian Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding method includes decoding a bitstream to obtain a first feature map, where a resolution of the first feature map is lower than a resolution of an original picture; and reconstructing a second feature map based on a first neural network, to obtain a reconstructed picture, where a resolution of the second feature map and a resolution of the reconstructed pictur...