US Patent Issued to Lemon on April 14 for "Configurable neural network model depth in neural network-based video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,998, issued on April 14, was assigned to Lemon Inc..

"Configurable neural network model depth in neural network-based video coding" was invented by Yue Li (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego) and Li Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by a video coding apparatus includes applying a neural network (NN) filter to an unfiltered sample of a video unit to generate a filtered sample, where the NN filter is based on a first NN filter model having a first depth, or a second NN filter model having a second depth, where the depth comprises a number of residual blocks of the respective NN filter model, and where ...