ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,871, issued on March 3, was assigned to Novatek Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Coding apparatus and coding method" was invented by Cheng-Yang Chang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chieh-Fang Teng (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Yu Shan Tai (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Kai-Ya Wei (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), An-Yu Wu (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yen-Hsi Lee (Taipei City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coding apparatus and a coding method are proposed. The coding apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to obtain a feature map, perform lossy compression on the feature map to generate a lossy feature map, perform...