ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,161, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"System and method for dual-value attention and instance boundary aware regression in computer vision system" was invented by Qingfeng Liu (San Diego) and Mostafa El-Khamy (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer vision system including: one or more processors; and memory including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: determine a semantic multi-scale context feature and an instance multi-scale context feature of an input scene; generate a joint attention map based on ...