US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 6 for "Recognizing social groups and identifying order in queues from RGB images" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,145, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Recognizing social groups and identifying order in queues from RGB images" was invented by Jayakorn Vongkulbhisal (Tokyo) and Tatsuya Ishihara (Arakawa-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for training a neural network to cluster multiple people in an image into groups and estimate an activity of each of the groups is provided. The method extracts a feature of each of the multiple people in the image. The method inputs the feature to the neural network to estimate an affinity matrix A and the activity of each of the groups. The m...