US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 24 for "Sliding-window rate-distortion optimization in neural network-based video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,663, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sliding-window rate-distortion optimization in neural network-based video coding" was invented by Thomas Alexander Ryder (San Diego), Muhammed Zeyd Coban (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for encoding video data can be configured to encode a set of input frames of the video data with an image analysis neural network to generate a corresponding set of output frames, wherein the set of output frames includes a first output frame and additional output frames, wherein the first output frame temporally precedes th...