MUMBAI, India, Aug. 8 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517059923 A) filed by Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd., Zhejiang, China, on June 23, for 'method and apparatuses for using face video generative compression sei message.'

Inventor(s) include Chen, Bolin; Chen, Jie; Wang, Shurun; Ye, Yan and Wang, Shiqi.

The application for the patent was published on Aug. 8, under issue no. 32/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method of decoding a bitstream to output one or more pictures for a video stream, includes: receiving a bitstream; and decoding, using coded information of the bitstream, one or more pictures. The decoding includes: determining, based on an identifying number, whether a face video generative compression scheme is used; in response to a determination that the face video generative compression scheme is used, decoding a supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message, the SEI message comprising facial information; and reconstructing a face picture based on the facial information and a base picture associated with the SEI message."

The patent application was internationally filed on Dec. 27, 2023, under International application No.PCT/CN2023/142256.

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