ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,464, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Content tagging" was invented by Xiaoyu Wang (Playa Vista, Calif.), Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.), Ning Zhang (Los Angeles), Vitor Rocha de Carvalho (San Diego) and Jia Li (Marina Del Rey, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, devices, media, and computer readable instructions are described for local image tagging in a resource constrained environment. One embodiment involves processing image data using a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) comprising at least a first subgraph and a second subgraph, the first subgraph comprising at least a ...