ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,767, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Weakly supervised semantic segmentation method and device based on a commonality-specificity supervision mechanism" was invented by Jianwei Yin (Hangzhou, China), Ge Su (Hangzhou, China), Tiancheng Zhao (Hangzhou, China) and Hangjin Jiang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a weakly supervised semantic segmentation method and device based on a commonality-specificity supervision mechanism, the contrastive convolution module is established to identify ambiguous boundary regions within the image based on the convo...