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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2020
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Qifei Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Alexander Kuznetsov, Mountain View, CA (US);
Alec Michael Go, Milpitas, CA (US);
Grace Chu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Eunyoung Kim, Mountain View, CA (US);
Feng Yang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Andrew Gerald Howard, Culver City, CA (US);
Jeffrey M. Gilbert, Los Altos, CA (US);
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to object and/or character recognition for use in applications such as computer vision. Advantages of the present disclosure include lightweight functionality that can be used on devices such as smart phones. Aspects of the present disclosure include a sequential architecture where a lightweight machine-learned model can receive an image, detect whether an object is present in one or more regions of the image, and generate an output based on the detection. This output can be applied as a filter to remove image data that can be neglected for more memory intensive machine-learned models applied downstream.