ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,518, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Video domain adaptation via contrastive learning for decision making" was invented by Yi-Hsuan Tsai (Santa Clara, Calif.), Xiang Yu (Mountain View, Calif.), Bingbing Zhuang (San Jose, Calif.), Manmohan Chandraker (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Donghyun Kim (Mukilteo, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video methods and systems include extracting features of a first modality and a second modality from a labeled first training dataset in a first domain and an unlabeled second training dataset in a second domain. A video analysis model is trained using contrastive learning on the ex...