US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on Oct. 6 for "Image synthesis with feature-level supervision and per-step optimization" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,446, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).

"Image synthesis with feature-level supervision and per-step optimization" was invented by Marcus A. Pereira (Lubbock, Texas), Wan-Yi Lin (Wexford, Pa.), Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi (Coraopolis, Pa.) and Ru-Yu Wang (Leonberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image synthesis process includes generating a target mask based on a segmentation mask of a defect displayed in a source image. A source feature map is generated based on the source image at each step of a forward diffusion process. A synthetic image is generated via a reverse diffusion process involving ste...