ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,466, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Superpixel methods for convolutional neural networks" was invented by Reginald Clifford Young (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jonathan Ross (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for efficiently performing a computation of a convolutional neural network layer. One of the methods includes transforming a X by Y by Z input tensor into a X' by Y' by Z' input tensor, wherein X' is smaller than or equal to X, Y' is smaller than or equal to Y, and Z' is larger than or equal to Z; obtaining one or more modified weight matrices,...