US Patent Issued to NEC on July 29 for "Image matching apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,079, issued on July 29, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image matching 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 image matching apparatus (2000) comprises a ground-view feature extractor (2020), an aerial-view feature extractor (2040), and a determination unit (2060). The ground-view feature extractor (2020) extracts features from the ground-view image (20) to generate feature maps without attention mechanism and feature maps with attention mechanism. The aerial-view feature extractor (2040) ...