US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Feb. 17 for "Efficient neural network decoder for image compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,733, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Efficient neural network decoder for image compression" was invented by 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: "This disclosure relates generally to image coding and particularly to methods and systems for neural image compression (NIC). The disclosed NIC decoder/encoder may include various neural network components that are configured to achieve a balance between network complexity and coding efficiency. Such a NIC decoder/encoder implementation particularly include ...