US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Dec. 9 for "Block-based long-range context model in neural image compression" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,151, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Block-based 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 may be provided. The method may include generating long-range context model parameters associated with a high resolution compressed image, the long-range context model parameters corresponding to a first area. The method may a...