US Patent Issued to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES on Oct. 7 for "Fine-grained classification of retail products" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,030, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Fine-grained classification of retail products" was invented by Avishek Kumar Shaw (Kolkata, India), Shilpa Yadukumar Rao (Chennai, India), Pranoy Hari (Chennai, India), Dipti Prasad Mukherjee (Kolkata, India) and Bikash Santra (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The fine-grained variations in product images are usually due to slight variations in text, size, and color of the package. Both marginal variations in image content and illumination poses an important challenge in product classification. This disclosure relates to a system and ...