ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,399, issued on Nov. 3.

"Data collection for object detectors" was invented by Mehdi Regina (Le Lamentin, France), Maxime Marc Meyer (Avelin, France) and Sebastien Goutal (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of generating metadata from an image may comprise sending the image to an object detection service, which generates detections metadata from the image. The image may also be sent to a visual features extractor, which extracts visual features metadata from the image. The generated detections metadata may then be sent to an uncertainty score calculator, which computes an uncertainty score from t...