US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on June 3 for "Image data augmentation apparatus and method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,417, issued on June 3, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Image data augmentation apparatus and method" was invented by Kai-Chun Su (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tsung-Hsuan Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shih-Tse Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses an image data augmentation method that includes the steps outlined below. At least one distortion operation function is retrieved. A plurality of pixels included in the image are twisted according to the distortion operation function to generate at least one augmented image. Object information of each of at least one object inclu...