By catching the
attention and likes of Tencent and Huawei, Baidu has topped as the leading
artificial intelligence (AI) Patent Application leader. Apart from this, Baidu (with 1,237
patent applications) is also leading in the highly competitive area of
intelligent driving, as many reports stated.
Victor Liang, Vice
President & General Counsel Executive Assistant to CEO at Baidu, said that
they retained the top position for AI-related patent applications in China
because of their:
- Constant investment and research in developing AI
- Strategic focus on patents
After years of
research and development, Baidu has now developed a comprehensive AI ecosystem,
and therefore, is at the leading spot of the AI industry worldwide.
Patents focused
and filed by Baidu encompass a wide range of domains, including:
- Deep learning (1,429 patents)
- Speech recognition (933 patents)
- NLP – Natural Language Processing (938 patents)
While Baidu acquired
top position in China, its R&D center located in the US had filed patent
applications in the US patent office also.
In this patent
US20190355347A1, which is for a computer-implemented method to train a neural
network model for spectrogram inversion with the title – Spectrogram to
waveform synthesis using convolutional networks, Baidu lists the following
points:
- Inputting an input spectrogram, including many
frequency channels into a CNN (convolution neural network).
- Outputting a synthesized waveform from CNN for
the input spectrogram, which has a corresponding ground truth waveform.
- Using the synthesized waveform, the corresponding
ground truth waveform, and the loss function, consisting of at least one
or more loss components opted from convergence loss spectral.
- Using the loss to update the CNN.
- A clear mention of using the CNNs (convolutional
neural networks).
As CNN is the
lifeblood of several contemporary ML-based applications, any claim, even on a
small part, can create damages in the long run.
The current year has
witnessed a sudden and rapid growth of interest in owning algorithms and deep
learning. So, even if the plans are to protect the researches from falling prey
to pseudo players, this trial appears as a slippery slope where owners of big
businesses can leverage the smaller companies that are using advanced
technology.
In Baidu’s case,
too, there lie risks of losing ownership to various audio processing
applications. Contributed to the increasing fear among the ML community, Baidu
is a Chinese company. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) vision of this company
was fortified with projects such as Apollo, which is an open-source independent
driving platform together with many other intelligent driving innovations.
China has allegedly
been found involved in Intellectual Property (IP) thefts, especially from US companies. Hence,
when Baidu’s foreign division files a patent application, one cannot assist but
think about the consequences of handing the ownership to China that continued
to be the world’s leading source of fake goods, exhibiting its failure to take
crucial action to restrain the widespread manufacture, sale, and export of
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