US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 17 for "Electronic device and method with image encoding and decoding" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,718, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device and method with image encoding and decoding" was invented by Rong Pan (Xi'an, China), Pei You (Xi'an, China) and Ge Gao (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented method includes determining weights of a plurality of channel blocks comprised in a neural network to encode an image, selecting one or more channel blocks from the plurality of channel blocks to encode the image based on the weights and a compression rate of the image, and generating an encoded image by encoding the image using a sub-ne...