ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,763, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method of guided neural network model for image processing" was invented by Anbang Yao (Beijing), Ming Lu (Beijing), Yikai Wang (Beijing), Shandong Wang (Beijing), Yurong Chen (Beijing), Sungye Kim (Folsom, Calif.) and Attila Tamas Afra (Satu Mare, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method of guided neural network model for image processing. An apparatus may comprise a guidance map generator, a synthesis network and an accelerator. The guidance map generator may receive a first image as a cont...