ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,071, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Temporal interpolation of precipitation" was invented by Takao Moriyama (Yokohama, Japan), Michiaki Tatsubori (Oiso, Japan), Tatsuya Ishikawa (Chuo-ku, Japan) and Paolo Fraccaro (Warrington, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for training temporal precipitation interpolation models, the method may include receiving an initial image, a first intermediate image, and a final image, computing a first preliminary forward optical flow vector field from the initial image, and a first preliminary backward optical flow vector f...