ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,407, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"System and method for image processing using mixed inference precision" was invented by Wenhao Zhang (Beijing), Zhiguo Li (Beijing) and Shaochun Lv (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for processing image data. For example, a process can include generating one or more object detection outputs based on an input image. A plurality of image patches can be determined for the input image. Based on the object detection outputs, a first subset of the image patches can be determined as associated with a first inference precision level an...