ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,143, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Digimarc Corp. (Beaverton, Ore.).
"Enhanced neural network systems and methods" was invented by Geoffrey B. Rhoads (West Linn, Ore.) and Ravi K. Sharma (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Two stages of a convolutional neural network are linked by an interconnect that effects a spatial transposition of array data. The spatial transposition can include rotation, scaling, or translation (e.g., in x- or y-directions). A parameter characterizing the transposition (e.g., a parameter identifying rotation angle) can be learned by the same training process that is also used to learn other net...