US Patent Issued to Google on Jan. 13 for "Gating of contextual attention and convolutional features" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,852, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Gating of contextual attention and convolutional features" was invented by Noritsugu Kanazawa (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining a mask defining a portion of a perceptual representation, convolutional features associated with the perceptual representation, and contextual attention features associated with the perceptual representation. The method also includes determining a concatenation of the mask, the convolutional features, and the contextual attention features. The method additionally includes determining gate...