US Patent Issued to Painted Dog on Dec. 2 for "Methods and apparatus for detecting, filtering, and identifying objects in streaming video" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,219, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Painted Dog Inc. (New York).

"Methods and apparatus for detecting, filtering, and identifying objects in streaming video" was invented by Ken Aizawa (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Jared Max Browarnik (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Training neural networks to recognize matching items requires large data sets and long training times. Conversely, training a neural network with triplets of similar objects instead of triplets of identical objects relaxes constraints on the size and content of the data set, making training easier. Moreover, the notion of "similarity" can be almost arbitrary, maki...