ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,748, issued on May 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Category discovery using machine learning" was invented by Xuhui Jia (Seattle) and Kai Han (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing novel category discovery. One of the methods includes generating first local feature tensors from a first training image; obtaining previous local feature tensors generated from a previous training image; generating a first similarity tensor representing a similarity between the first local feature tensors ...