US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises, ETH Zurich (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich) on June 24 for "Adaptive convolutions in neural networks" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,440, issued on June 24, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.) and ETH Zurich (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich) (Zurich).

"Adaptive convolutions in neural networks" was invented by Prashanth Chandran (Zurich), Derek Edward Bradley (Zurich), Paulo Fabiano Urnau Gotardo (Zurich) and Gaspard Zoss (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for performing style transfer between a content sample and a style sample is disclosed. The technique includes applying one or more neural network layers to a first latent representation of the style sample to generate one or more convolutional kernels. The techni...