ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,757, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to IMAX Corp. (Mississauga, Canada).
"Automatic visual media transmission error assessment" was invented by Jiheng Wang (Waterloo, Canada), Hojatollah Yeganeh (Waterloo, Canada), Kai Zeng (Kitchener, Canada) and Zhou Wang (Waterloo, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method or system is disclosed to assess transmission errors in a visual media input. Domain knowledge is obtained from the visual media input by content analysis, codec analysis, distortion analysis, and human visual system modeling. The visual media input is divided into partitions, which are passed into deep neural networks (DNNs...