US Patent Issued to Samsung Display on May 27 for "Vector quantized auto-encoder codebook learning for manufacturing display extreme minor defects detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,136, issued on May 27, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Vector quantized auto-encoder codebook learning for manufacturing display extreme minor defects detection" was invented by Shuhui Qu (Fremont, Calif.), Qisen Cheng (Cupertino, Calif.) and Janghwan Lee (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including: a memory, an encoder, a decoder, and a processor, the processor being connected to the memory, the encoder, and the decoder. The system is configured to: receive, at the encoder, an input image, divide, by the encoder, the input image into a plurality of image patches, select, ...