US Patent Issued to Sisvel Technology, Universita Degli Studi Di Torino, Institut Mines Telecom on March 24 for "Method for learned image compression and related autoencoder" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,664, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sisvel Technology S.R.L. (None, Italy), Universita Degli Studi Di Torino (Turin, Italy) and Institut Mines Telecom (Palaiseau, France).

"Method for learned image compression and related autoencoder" was invented by Alberto Presta (Azzano Decimo, Italy), Attilio Fiandrotti (Turin, Italy), Enzo Tartaglione (Nardo, Italy) and Marco Grangetto (Pinerolo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for learned image compression implemented in an autoencoder includes: a) extracting from an image a latent space by the learnable encoder; b) quantizing the latent space by a quantizer to obtain a quan...