ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,199, issued on March 24, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Diffusion-based open-vocabulary segmentation" was invented by Jiarui Xu (San Diego), Shalini De Mello (San Francisco), Sifei Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Arash Vahdat (Mountain View, Calif.) and Wonmin Byeon (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An open-vocabulary diffusion-based panoptic segmentation system is not limited to perform segmentation using only object categories seen during training, and instead can also successfully perform segmentation of object categories not seen during training and only seen during testing and inferencing. In c...