US Patent Issued to X Development on Jan. 28 for "Image translation for image recognition to compensate for source image regional differences" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,251, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Image translation for image recognition to compensate for source image regional differences" was invented by Phillip Ellsworth Stahlfeld (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for predicting locations of utility assets. One of the methods includes receiving an input image of an area in a first geographical region; generating, from the input image and using a generative adversarial network, a corresponding reference image; and generating, by a...