ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,343, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan) and Politechnico di Torino (Turin, Italy).

"Method and apparatus for image recognition using dual-subnetwork architecture" was invented by Ali Arslan (Kanagawa, Japan), Matteo Testa (Kanagawa, Japan), Lev Markhasin (Kanagawa, Japan), Tiziano Bianchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Enrico Magli (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for image recognition. The apparatus comprises a machine learning network configured to map first and second input image data to either a first or a second predefined t...