US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 15 for "Image classification with modality dropout" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,679, issued on July 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Image classification with modality dropout" was invented by Nikhil Garg (Berlin) and Suren Kumar (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for classifying images associated with an item, and generating an image set for that item which includes image classifications determined to be helpful for the item type of the item. To classify images, an image classification model is generated and trained using two phases. The first phase uses intermediate model with text and visual processing to teach the model to recognize patterns creat...