ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,284, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Feature map encoding and decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Yibo Shi (Beijing), Yunying Ge (Beijing), Jing Wang (Beijing), Jue Mao (Hangzhou, China), Yin Zhao (Hangzhou, China) and Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a feature map encoding and decoding method and an apparatus, and relates to the field of artificial intelligence (AI)-based data encoding and decoding technologies. The feature map decoding method includes: obtaining a bitstream of a to-be-decoded feature map, where the to-...