US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Feb. 24 for "System for low-photon-count visual object detection and classification" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,951, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System for low-photon-count visual object detection and classification" was invented by Thomas Fischbacher (Gattikon, Switzerland) and Luciano Sbaiz (Gattikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system can be configured for low-photon-count visual object classification. The computing system can include a photon detection system including one or more cells. Each of the one or more cells can include one or more photon detectors. Each of the one or more photon detectors can be configured to output photon signatures in response to a photon be...