US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Method and apparatus for encoding a picture and decoding a bitstream using a neural network" (German, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,625, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for encoding a picture and decoding a bitstream using a neural network" was invented by Elena Alexandrovna Alshina (Munich), Han Gao (Shenzhen, China) and Semih Esenlik (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for encoding a picture and decoding a bitstream representing a matrix using a neural network is provided. The method includes obtaining a resizing method out of a plurality of resizing methods. The resizing method is applied to resize an input of size S to a size S. The resized input is processed...