ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,845, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Multilayer laplacian resizer for computer vision systems" was invented by Hossein Talebi (San Jose, Calif.), Zhengzhong Tu (Los Altos, Calif.) and Peyman Milanfar (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology provides an image resizer that is jointly trainable with neural network classification (recognition) models, and is designed to improve classification performance. Systems and method include applying an input image to a baseline resizer to obtain a default resized image, and applying the input image to a plurality of filters. Each ...