US Patent Issued to ROBERT BOSCH on Dec. 9 for "Data augmentation for the training of image classifiers" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,773, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Data augmentation for the training of image classifiers" was invented by Claudia Blaiotta (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating, from an input image, an output image that a given image classifier classifies into a target class chosen from multiple available classes of a given classification. The method includes mapping, using a trained encoder network, the input image to a lower dimensional representation in a latent space; drawing a noise sample from a given distribution; and mapping, using a trained generator network,...