ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,228, issued on March 3, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Circuitries and methods" was invented by Christian Brandli (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuitry for video image encoding, the circuitry being configured to encode an input video image based on a first set of convolutional kernels of a first neural network convolutional layer and a second set of convolutional kernels of a second neural network convolutional layer, wherein the first set of convolutional kernels is optimized with respect to object representation and the second set of convolutional kernels is optimized w...