US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 3 for "Augmented-reality-interface conflation identification" (North Carolina, Florida, New Jersey, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,216, issued on March 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Augmented-reality-interface conflation identification" was invented by Aaron K. Baughman (Cary, N.C.), Eduardo Morales (Key Biscayne, Fla.), Rahul Agarwal (Jersey City, N.J.) and Chandankumar Johakhim Patel (Fairborn, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting conflation errors in an augmented reality interface is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method includes receiving an actual screenshot of an augmented reality interface. The method generates, using a generative adversarial network (GAN), a replica screenshot of the...