ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,363, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Data conversion learning apparatus, pattern recognition device, data conversion learning method, and recording medium" was invented by Masato Ishii (Tokyo), Takashi Takenouchi (Saitama, Japan) and Masashi Sugiyama (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data conversion learning apparatus includes a data conversion unit that performs data conversion of source data and target data, a first deduction unit that deduces data of a non-appearing class on the basis of a domain certainty factor acquired by a domain identification using converted data, a second deduction unit t...