ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,218, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Learning device, learning method, and learning program" was invented by Ryota Higa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The learning device 80 includes an input unit 81 and an imitation learning unit 82. The input unit 81 receives input of a type of a reward function. The imitation learning unit 82 learns a policy by imitation learning based on training data. The imitation learning unit 82 learns the reward function according to the type by the imitation learning, based on a form defined depending on the type."
The patent was filed on Dec. 7, 2018, under Application No. 17...