US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 1 for "Automatically generating training data sets for object recognition" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,150, issued on April 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Automatically generating training data sets for object recognition" was invented by Dehua Cui (Redmond, Wash.), Albert Thambiratnam (Redmond, Wash.), Ming Zhong (Redmond, Wash.) and Wenhui Zhang (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for automatically generating a training data set for object recognition. Profile information of a plurality of objects may be obtained. For each object among the plurality of objects, a group of initial images associated with the object may be collecte...