US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Jan. 20 for "Feature map encoding and decoding based on presence indicator" (German, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,009, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Feature map encoding and decoding based on presence indicator" was invented by Sergey Yurievich Ikonin (Moscow), Alexander Alexandrovich Karabutov (Munich), Mikhail Vyacheslavovich Sosulnikov (Munich), Victor Alexeevich Stepin (Munich) and Elena Alexandrovna Alshina (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to efficient signaling of feature map information for a system employing a neural network. In particular, at the decoder side, a presence indicator is obtained based on information parsed from a bitstream. Based on ...