US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Jan. 27 for "Attention based context modelling for image and video compression" (German, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,980, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Attention based context modelling for image and video compression" was invented by Ahmet Burakhan Koyuncu (Munich), Han Gao (Shenzhen, China), Atanas Boev (Munich) and Elena Alexandrovna Alshina (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses are described for entropy encoding and decoding of a latent tensor, which includes separating the latent tensor into segments in the spatial dimensions, each segment including at least one latent tensor element. An arrangement of the segments is processed by a neural network; the neural networ...