US Patent Issued to Upwork on Aug. 25 for "Image segmentation using deep neural networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,380, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Upwork Inc. (San Francisco).

"Image segmentation using deep neural networks" was invented by Megan Hardy (Oakland, Calif.) and Andrew Rabinovich (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a neural network to perform segmentation. One of the methods includes obtaining a sequence of input images each corresponding to a time step; and at each of a plurality of the time steps: processing a first input image of the sequence that corresponds to the time step using the neural network to gene...