IP Library Granted Patent US 11,074,495
Granted Patent B2
US 11,074,495 · App. 15/919,170 · Granted Jul 27, 2021

System and method for extremely efficient image and pattern recognition and artificial intelligence platform

Inventors: Lotfi A. Zadeh; Saied Tadayon (Potomac, MD); Bijan Tadayon (Potomac, MD)
Assignee: Z ADVANCED COMPUTING, INC. (ZAC)
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Patent No.
US 11,074,495
App. No.
15/919,170
Granted
Jul 27, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

Specification covers new algorithms, methods, and systems for: Artificial Intelligence; the first application of General-AI (versus Specific, Vertical, or Narrow-AI) (as humans can do); addition of reasoning, inference, and cognitive layers/engines to learning module/engine/layer; soft computing; Information Principle; Stratification; Incremental Enlargement Principle; deep-level/detailed recognition, e.g., image recognition (e.g., for action, gesture, emotion, expression, biometrics, fingerprint, tilted or partial-face, OCR, relationship, position, pattern, and object); Big Data analytics; machine learning; crowd-sourcing; classification; clustering; SVM; similarity measures; Enhanced Boltzmann Machines; Enhanced Convolutional Neural Networks; optimization; search engine; ranking; semantic web; context analysis; question-answering system; soft, fuzzy, or un-sharp boundaries/impreciseness/ambiguities/fuzziness in class or set, e.g., for language analysis; Natural Language Processing (NLP); Computing-with-Words (CWW); parsing; machine translation; music, sound, speech, or speaker recognition; video search and analysis (e.g. tracking); image annotation; image or color correction; data reliability; Z-Number; Z-Web; Z-Factor; rules engine; playing games; control system; autonomous vehicles or drones; self-diagnosis and self-repair robots; system diagnosis; medical diagnosis; genetics; drug discovery; biomedicine; data mining; event prediction; financial forecasting (e.g., for stocks); economics; risk assessment; fraud detection (e.g., for cryptocurrency); e-mail management; database management; indexing and join operation; memory management; data compression; event-centric social network; social behavior; and Image Ad and Referral Networks.

Claims (20)

1. A system for image recognition in an image recognition platform, said system comprising: an interface which receives an image; said interface receives a location of interest; a neural network implemented by a computer with a processor; wherein said neural network comprises a visual layer and a first hidden layer; wherein said visual layer is located below said first hidden layer; wherein said neural network receives said image and said location of interest; wherein said image is connected to said visual layer; a parameter layer; wherein said parameter layer is added to said neural network; a representation layer; wherein said representation layer is added to said neural network; wherein said parameter layer has information for coordinates, width, height, orientation, or type of shape for said location of interest; wherein said representation layer represents a value, values, or range of values that said parameter layer has for said location of interest; wherein said representation layer has a weighted link to a second hidden layer, connected horizontally from side of said neural network; wherein said second hidden layer is located between said visual layer and said first hidden layer; wherein said second hidden layer is located above said visual layer; wherein said second hidden layer is located below said first hidden layer; a correlation layer; wherein said correlation layer is located above said first hidden layer; the computer trains the neural network to correlate said location of interest with said image.

2. The system for image recognition in an image recognition platform, as recited in claim 1 , wherein said representation layer is connected to said correlation layer in both directions.

3. The system for image recognition in an image recognition platform, as recited in claim 1 , wherein said parameter layer is connected to said correlation layer in both directions.

4. The system for image recognition in an image recognition platform, as recited in claim 1 , wherein said correlation layer correlates said representation layer with said image.

5. The system for image recognition in an image recognition platform, as recited in claim 1 , wherein said correlation layer correlates said parameter layer with said image.

6. The system for image recognition in an image recognition platform, as recited in claim 1 , wherein said correlation layer correlates said location of interest with said image, using said representation layer.

7. The system for image recognition in an image recognition platform, as recited in claim 1 , wherein said correlation layer correlates said location of interest with said image, using said parameter layer.

8. The system for image recognition in an image recognition platform, as recited in claim 1 , wherein said correlation layer reconstructs, in reverse mode, after training.

9. The system for image recognition in an image recognition platform, as recited in claim 1 , wherein said system comprises or applies one or more of following: softmax, cross entropy, sigmoid cross entropy, contrastive, Eucledean distance, sum of squares of difference, multinomial logistic, infogain, generalization of multinomial logistic, or hinge or margin loss layer, unit, or comparison module.

10. The system for image recognition in an image recognition platform, as recited in claim 1 , wherein said system comprises or applies one of following between said representation layer and said second hidden layer: softmax, cross entropy, sigmoid cross entropy, contrastive, Eucledean distance, sum of squares of difference, multinomial logistic, infogain, generalization of multinomial logistic, or hinge or margin loss layer, unit, or comparison module.

11. The system for image recognition in an image recognition platform, as recited in claim 1 , wherein said neural network is not fully connected.

12. The system for image recognition in an image recognition platform, as recited in claim 1 , wherein said connection between said representation layer and said second hidden layer is not fully connected.

13. The system for image recognition in an image recognition platform, as recited in claim 1 , wherein said neural network comprises convolutional neural network connectivity format.

14. The system for image recognition in an image recognition platform, as recited in claim 1 , wherein said representation layer is expressed in Carthesian coordinates.

15. The system for image recognition in an image recognition platform, as recited in claim 1 , wherein said representation layer is expressed in polar or angular coordinates.

16. The system for image recognition in an image recognition platform, as recited in claim 1 , wherein said parameter layer is expressed in Fuzzy values.

17. The system for image recognition in an image recognition platform, as recited in claim 1 , wherein said location of interest is a part of an object represented by said image.

18. The system for image recognition in an image recognition platform, as recited in claim 1 , wherein said location of interest is represented as a coarse value or Fuzzy value.

19. The system for image recognition in an image recognition platform, as recited in claim 1 , wherein said system is used or applied recursively in said image recognition platform, to find or distinguish or detect or recognize various objects and their components.

20. A system for image recognition in an image recognition platform, said system comprising: an interface which receives an image; said interface receives a location of interest; a neural network implemented by a computer with a processor; wherein said neural network comprises a visual layer and a first hidden layer; wherein said visual layer is located below said first hidden layer; wherein said neural network receives said image and said location of interest; wherein said image is connected to said visual layer; a representation layer; wherein said representation layer is added to said neural network; wherein said representation layer represents a value, values, or range of values of information corresponding to coordinates, width, height, orientation, or type of shape for said location of interest; wherein said representation layer has a weighted link to a second hidden layer, connected horizontally from side of said neural network; wherein said second hidden layer is located between said visual layer and said first hidden layer; wherein said second hidden layer is located above said visual layer; wherein said second hidden layer is located below said first hidden layer; a correlation layer; wherein said correlation layer is located above said first hidden layer; the computer trains the neural network to correlate said location of interest with said image.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 15, 2018
From: ZADEH, LOTFI A.; TADAYON, SAIED; TADAYON, BIJAN
To: Z ADVANCED COMPUTING, INC.
Reel/Frame 045242/0805 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation In Part 14218923 · Mar 18, 2014
Continuation In Part 13781303 · Feb 28, 2013
Related Publication 20180204111A1 · Jul 19, 2018
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