US Patent Issued to NEC on Feb. 18 for "Teaching data extending device, teaching data extending method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,643, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Teaching data extending device, teaching data extending method, and program" was invented by Hideaki Sato (Tokyo), Kyota Higa (Tokyo) and Kota Iwamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A teaching data extending device includes: a relationship acquiring unit that obtains a relationship between a plurality of features included in each of a plurality of teaching data; a feature selecting unit that selects any one or more of the plurality of features based on the relationship; and a teaching data extending unit that generates, for one or more teaching data, new teaching data...