US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on Feb. 17 for "Techniques for component-based image preprocessing" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,201, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Techniques for component-based image preprocessing" was invented by Christos G. Bampis (Los Gatos, Calif.), Li-Heng Chen (Austin, Texas), Aditya Mavlankar (San Francisco) and Anush Moorthy (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, an image preprocessing application preprocesses images. To preprocess an image, the image preprocessing application executes a trained machine learning model on first data corresponding to both the image and a first set of components of a luma-chroma color space to generate first preprocessed data. ...