US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Aug. 25 for "Neural network-based proxy for block-based codecs" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,085, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Neural network-based proxy for block-based codecs" was invented by Jonathan Edward Barker (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processors, systems and techniques to generate control parameters for a video codec to optimize encoding of video streams is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a neural network implementing an end-to-end differentiable proxy of the codec, including differentiable models of intra and inter prediction modes, is trained to generate control parameters for the video codec which subsequently encodes respective frames of a dat...