ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,044, issued on March 31, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Deep contextual video image compression" was invented by Jiahao Li (Redmond, Wash.), Bin Li (Hefei, China) and Yan Lu (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to implementations of the present disclosure, there is provided a context-based image coding solution. According to the solution, a reference image of a target image is obtained. A contextual feature representation is extracted from the reference image, the contextual feature representation characterizing contextual information associated with the target image. Conditional e...