ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,496, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Object position estimation device, object position estimation method, and recording medium" was invented by Hiroo Ikeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object position estimation device (1) is provided with: a feature extraction unit (10) including a first feature extraction unit (21) which generates a first feature map by subjecting a target image to a convolution computation process, and a second feature extraction unit (22) which generates a second feature map by also subjecting the first feature map to the convolution computation process; and a likelihood map esti...