ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,758, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Runtime ranking of object detection" was invented by Dongdong Chen (Redmond, Wash.), Yunsheng Li (Sammamish, Wash.), Lu Yuan (Redmond, Wash.) and Xuelu Feng (Buffalo, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example solutions for ranking object detection results generate or receive a plurality of segmentation masks each corresponding to one or more images. Each segmentation mask of each plurality of segmentation masks is generated using a different object detector or setting options. A quality predictor assigns a quality score to each segmentatio...