ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,787, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GLORY LTD. (Himeji, Japan) and CHUBU UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Kasugai, Japan).

"Image processing apparatus, method of generating learning model, and inference method" was invented by Yuki Ukai (Himeji, Japan), Hironobu Fujiyoshi (Kasugai, Japan), Takayoshi Yamashita (Kasugai, Japan) and Tsubasa Hirakawa (Kasugai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A learning model generates a plurality of prototype vectors and generates an integrated similarity vector that indicates similarity between an input image and each prototype for a plurality of prototypes in accordance with similarity betwe...