ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,957, issued on May 13, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Learning apparatus, learning method, and recording medium" was invented by Jun Piao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a learning apparatus, an acquisition unit acquires image data and label data corresponding to the image data. An object candidate extraction unit extracts each object candidate rectangle from the image data. A correct answer data generation unit generates a background object label corresponding to each background object included in each object candidate rectangle as correct answer data corresponding to the object candidate rectangle by using the label d...