ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,154, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).
"Selecting balanced clusters of descriptive vectors" was invented by Aneesh Vartakavi (Emeryville, Calif.), Peter C. DiMaria (Berkeley, Calif.), Markus K. Cremer (Orinda, Calif.) and Phillip Popp (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clustering machine can cluster descriptive vectors in a balanced manner. The clustering machine calculates distances between pairs of descriptive vectors and generates clusters of vectors arranged in a hierarchy. The clustering machine determines centroid vectors of the clusters, such that each cluster is represented by its corr...