US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on April 14 for "Long-range context model in neural image compression" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,834, issued on April 14, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Long-range context model in neural image compression" was invented by Yang Sui (Piscataway, N.J.), Ding Ding (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for decoding a compressed image using a neural image compression network are provided. The method may include generating context parameters associated with a compressed image, the context parameters corresponding to a first area. The method may also include determining that a long range global dependency e...