US Patent Issued to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS on Feb. 17 for "Learned video compression and connectors for multiple machine tasks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,720, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Learned video compression and connectors for multiple machine tasks" was invented by Fabien Racape (San Francisco), Lahiru Dulanjana Hewa Gamage (Davis, Calif.), Jean Begaint (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Simon Feltman (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing module, or connector, adapts an output of a codec, or a decoded output, to a form suitable for an alternate task. In one embodiment, the output of a codec is used for a machine task and the connector adapts this output to a form suitable for a video display. In another emb...