US Patent Issued to INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY on Aug. 25 for "Deep learning-based image coding method and device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,056, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Deep learning-based image coding method and device" was invented by Yongjo Ahn (Seoul, South Korea) and Jongseok Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deep learning-based signal processing method according to the present invention may: obtain a quantized feature map from a bitstream; reconstruct the feature map by performing inverse quantization on the quantized feature map; and synthesize the reconstructed feature map on the basis of a neural network."

The patent was filed on Dec. 22, 2021, under Application No. 18/259,...