Geoff Hinton And His Team File A Patent For Capsule Neural Networks

"According to the filing, the inventors claimed that capsule networks can be used in place of conventional convolutional neural networks." Looks like Google won't be stopping its infamous patenting spree anytime soon. Earlier this month, Google filed a patent for capsule networks. Turing award recipient and Google researcher Geoff Hinton was named amongst the list of inventors in the filing. According to the patent filed, the inventors claimed that capsule networks can be used in place of conventional convolutional neural networks for traditional computer vision applications. Capsule networks are aimed at alleviating the extra dimensionality which surfaces with a convolutional neural network.