ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,587, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Flow-agnostic neural video compression" was invented by Hoang Cong Minh Le (La Jolla, Calif.), Reza Pourreza (San Diego), Yang Yang (San Diego), Yinhao Zhu (La Jolla, Calif.), Amir Said (San Diego) and Taco Sebastiaan Cohen (Amsterdam).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented method for video compression using an artificial neural network (ANN) includes receiving a video via the ANN. The ANN extracts a first set of features of a current frame of the video and a second set of features of a reference frame of the video. The ANN determines an estimate of co...