ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,964, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and system for detecting and classifying objects of image" was invented by Changdong Yoo (Daejeon, South Korea), Thang Vu (Daejeon, South Korea), Xuan Trung Pham (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hyunjun Jang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method comprising the steps of: generating a second anchor on the second convolutional feature map by scaling and shifting a first anchor in the ground-truth box; generating a third convolutional feature map by convolving the seco...