US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 25 for "Vector bypass for generative adversarial image segmentation" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,535, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Vector bypass for generative adversarial image segmentation" was invented by Haoxiang Qiu (Tokyo), Takayuki Osogami (Yamato, Japan), Takayuki Katsuki (Tokyo), Tomoya Sakai (Tokyo) and Tadanobu Inoue (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product are provided. A visual inspection machine learning model is trained using a generative adversarial network. Within the generative adversarial network a vector bypass is implemented. By transmitting a vector embedding representation of an unl...