US Patent Issued to NEC on Jan. 27 for "Training apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,680, issued on Jan. 27, 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: "A training apparatus (2000) acquires a ground-view image (20), an aerial-view image (30), and alignment information (50), and trains a discriminator (10) that extracts a plurality of partial aerial regions (40) from the aerial-view image (30) and determines that the ground-view image (20) matches the aerial-view image (30) when there is the partial aerial region (40) that matches the ground-...