US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on May 26 for "Filtering for image encoding and decoding" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,239, issued on May 26, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Filtering for image encoding and decoding" was invented by Kenneth Andersson (Gavle, Sweden), Jacob Strom (Stockholm) and Du Liu (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method. The method comprises obtaining a weighting factor. The method comprises obtaining input sample values. The method further comprises determining neural network, NN, filtered sample values by providing the input sample values to a neural network. The method comprises determining revised sample values based on (i) the weighting factor and (ii) the ...