US Patent Issued to DeepNorth on April 15 for "Image quality assessment using similar scenes as reference" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,503, issued on April 15, was assigned to DeepNorth Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Image quality assessment using similar scenes as reference" was invented by Jinjun Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Yudong Liang (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for image quality assessment of non-aligned images includes a first deep path portion of a convolutional neural network having a set of parameters and a second deep path portion of the convolutional neural network sharing a set of parameters with the first deep path convolutional neural network. Weights are shared between the first and second deep path convolutional neural networks ...