Algorithms that can be patented can be regarded as new technologies.
"Patent Law of the People's Republic of China"
Article 22 Inventions and utility models for which patent rights are granted shall possess novelty, creativity and practicality.
Novelty means that the invention or utility model does not belong to the existing technology; no unit or individual has applied for the same invention or utility model to the patent administration department of the State Council before the application date, and It shall be recorded in patent application documents or published patent documents published after the filing date.
Creativity means that compared with the existing technology, the invention has outstanding substantive features and significant progress, and the utility model has substantive features and progress.
Practiceability means that the invention or utility model can be manufactured or used and can produce positive effects. The term "existing technology" as used in this Law refers to technology that is known to the public at home and abroad before the filing date.
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At the recent 2018 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, after more than three months of fierce competition, the World Artificial Intelligence The highest honorary awards of the innovation competition were finally settled, namely the "Amazon AWS Cloud AI Innovation" project which won the Excellence Award, the "ICBC Smart Future Bank" project which won the Application Award, and the "Yitu Intelligent Portrait Platform" which won the Innovation Award. project, as well as the Pioneer Award-winning "Densely Connected Convolutional Neural Network" project.
Among them, Yitu Technology, which develops and builds the "Yitu Intelligent Portrait Platform", is a pure artificial intelligence company.
According to reports, the highest honor award of the World Artificial Intelligence Innovation Competition was established for the first time to commend global artificial intelligence innovation projects that lead technological innovation and change and create a better life in the future.
Many participating projects come from global high-tech companies such as Microsoft, Baidu, Amazon, Tencent, iFlytek, Xiaomi and domestic and foreign academic research institutions. The Innovation Award is used to reward global achievements in the field of artificial intelligence. Leading-edge innovative technologies and new application projects. Zhu Long, CEO of Yitu Technology, believes that Yitu’s face recognition technology can win this innovation award because its core competitiveness is its independently developed face recognition algorithm.
Face recognition, or computer vision processing, as a key component of artificial intelligence, is currently in an unimaginably rapid development stage and has relatively mature applications in security, finance, medical and other fields. "The efficiency of our algorithm is improving almost 100 times every year. Now it is not difficult to identify a person from hundreds of millions of faces."
Zhu Long said, Yitu Portrait Platform The core ultra-high-precision face recognition algorithm uses a large-scale deep neural network, a carefully designed ternary loss function, and a customized training strategy to greatly improve the performance of the face recognition system and reduce the false alarm rate to 100 million points. One or less.
It is precisely by relying on such a precise facial recognition algorithm that Yitu Technology has become the only Chinese company in the world to win two world championships in facial recognition.
Artificial intelligence is application-oriented and needs to be "implemented". According to reports, since this year, the Beijing Railway Police has used Yitu's cutting-edge technology in the field of artificial intelligence to seize four online fugitives from the Ministry of Public Security within 24 hours at a certain site, including one who had been absconding for 19 years. By July this year, the Beijing Railway Police had used Yitu artificial intelligence technology to arrest nearly 2,000 criminals of various types, including more than 100 fugitives online.
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