ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,168, issued on April 15, was assigned to ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).
"Method and apparatus for image processing and image classification" was invented by Liangpeng Xu (Hangzhou, China), Chuan Dai (Hangzhou, China) and Mingqian Tang (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for image processing and image classification. In one embodiment, the method for image processing comprises: receiving an image; obtaining a first classification result for the image based on a classification model; processing the image for classification based on a preset p...