US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 25 for "U-Net and transformer based in-loop filtering for video coding" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,117, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"U-Net and transformer based in-loop filtering for video coding" was invented by Thomas Alexander Ryder (San Diego), Dmytro Rusanovskyy (San Diego), Samuel James Eadie (Munich), Yun Li (Ottobrunn, Germany) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for decoding video data are described. An example method includes in-loop filtering a current block of the video data using a neural network-based in-loop filter to generate an in-loop filtered current block, wherein the neural network-based in-loop filter is trained using an architec...