ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,658, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Training apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Royston Rodrigues (Tokyo) and Masahiro Tani (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The training apparatus (2000) performs a first phase training and a second phase training of a discriminator (10). The discriminator (10) acquires a ground-view image and an aerial-view image, and determines whether the acquired ground-view image matches the acquired aerial-view image. The first phase training is performed using a ground-view image and a first level negative example of aeria...