US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Sept. 1 for "Noise augmentation" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,229, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Noise augmentation" was invented by Wangren Xu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and techniques for testing and training hardware devices and computer vision models using images augmented with noise. In one embodiment, the techniques include augmenting a plurality of images with noise to generate a plurality of sets of noise-augmented images (NAIs). Individual sets of NAIs include noise of a respective noise level, applying one or more sets of NAIs of the plurality of sets of NAIs to determine one or more ac...