Invertible Linear Mapping with Autoregressive Convolution for Data Processing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing digital image, audio, and video processing technologies face limitations in performance for enhancement, transmission, and storage, particularly in image transformation, recognition, anomaly detection, and control of autonomous vehicles, due to restrictive data processing structures and inefficiencies in generative modeling methods.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of a computer-implemented method using invertible linear mappings with autoregressive convolutions for digital image, audio, and video data processing, allowing for efficient transformation, encoding, and decoding, and enabling improved performance in image recognition, anomaly detection, and control of autonomous systems through sequential and parallel processing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If traditional generative modeling methods are used, then implementation is straightforward, but processing efficiency and performance are limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocessing efficiencyVSAvoidmapping structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the data processing into distinct stages: encoding through invertible mapping, modification in latent space, and decoding through inversion. This segmentation allows each stage to be optimized independently, improving overall processing efficiency while managing complexity through modular architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transforms data from pixel space to a different representation space through invertible linear mapping, enabling processing in a transformed dimension where modifications can be made more efficiently. This dimensional transformation allows complex image processing operations to be performed more effectively in the latent space.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Manufacturing precision

If complex processing structures are implemented to improve performance, then image enhancement quality improves, but computational complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage enhancement qualityVSAvoidcomputational structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediate latent representation space that mediates between the input image and the enhanced output. This intermediary space allows complex transformations to be decomposed into simpler operations: encoding to latent space, modification, and decoding back to image space, thereby improving quality while managing computational complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces traditional mechanical image processing operations with learnable neural network-based invertible mappings. This substitution allows the system to achieve high-quality enhancement through data-driven transformations rather than fixed algorithmic operations, improving performance while providing flexibility in complexity management.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Productivity

If invertible linear mapping with autoregressive convolution is used, then data processing efficiency is enhanced, but implementation complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata processing efficiencyVSAvoidmapping implementation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary encoding through invertible linear mapping with autoregressive convolution before modification. This preliminary transformation organizes the data into an efficient representation that facilitates subsequent processing operations, improving overall efficiency while the complexity is confined to the initial encoding stage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11276140B2Method and device for digital image, audio or video data processing
Publication Date: 2022.03.15 ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
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AI summary

Computer implemented method for digital image data, digital video data or digital audio data enhancement, and a computer implemented method for encoding or decoding this data in particular for transmission or storage, wherein an element representing a part of said digital data comprises an indication of a position of the element in an ordered input data of a plurality of data elements, wherein a plurality of elements is transformed to a representation depending on an invertible linear mapping, wherein the invertible linear mapping maps the input of the plurality of elements to the representation, wherein the invertible linear mapping comprises at least one autoregressive convolution.