ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,471, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Model generation apparatus, model generation method, image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium" was invented by Akira Hirokawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a model generation apparatus, a training data selection means selects sets of training data from a plurality of fingerprint images. A learning means trains a model that corrects a fingerprint image, by using the sets of training data. An evaluation value calculation means calculates evaluation values of results acquired by inputting the plurality of fingerprint images into the t...