ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,209, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Digimarc Corp. (Beaverton, Ore.).
"Image processing arrangements" was invented by Ravi K. Sharma (Portland, Ore.), Vahid Sedighianaraki (Portland, Ore.) and William Y. Conwell (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the detailed technologies concern training and use of neural networks for fine-grained classification of large numbers of items, e.g., as may be encountered in a supermarket. Mitigating false positive errors is an exemplary area of emphasis. Novel network topologies are also detailed-some employing recognition technologies in addition to neural networks. A great n...