US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Feb. 3 for "Apparatus and method for coding pictures using a convolutional neural network" (Russian, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,919, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Apparatus and method for coding pictures using a convolutional neural network" was invented by Alexey Aleksandrovich Letunovskiy (Moscow), Denis Vladimirovich Parkhomenko (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Alexander Andreevich Pletnev (Moscow), Andrey Sergeevich Shutkin (Moscow), Anuar Taskynov (Moscow), Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Xiang Ma (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to encoding and decoding of a picture or a plurality of pictures (e.g. video) using a neural network which is partially trained online. Accord...