US Patent Issued to INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY on June 30 for "Feature map compression method and apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,815, issued on June 30, was assigned to INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Feature map compression method and apparatus" 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 neural network-based image processing method and apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention may: acquire a feature tensor from an input image by using a first neural network including a plurality of neural network layers; acquire a symbol tensor by performing quantization on the acquired feature tensor; and generate a bitstream by performing entropy encoding on...