US Patent Issued to Snap on March 17 for "Compressing image-to-image models" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,406, issued on March 17, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Compressing image-to-image models" was invented by Jian Ren (Marina Del Ray, Calif.), Oliver Woodford (Santa Monica, Calif.), Sergey Tulyakov (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Jiazhuo Wang (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Qing Jin (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods herein describe an image compression system. The image compression system generates a first generative adversarial network (GAN), identifies a threshold, based on the threshold, generates a second GAN by pruning channels of the first GAN, trains the second GAN using similarity...