US Patent Issued to Lemon on June 2 for "Unified neural network in-loop filter" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,586, issued on June 2, was assigned to Lemon Inc..

"Unified neural network in-loop filter" was invented by Yue Li (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego) and Kai 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, wherein the NN filter is based on an NN filter model generated using a quality-level indicator (QI) input. The method also includes converting between a video media file and a bitstream based on the filtered sample that was generated."

The patent was filed on May 7, 202...