US Patent Issued to OSAKA UNIVERSITY on Oct. 7 for "Mental image visualization method, mental image visualization device and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,186, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Osaka, Japan).

"Mental image visualization method, mental image visualization device and recording medium" was invented by Tomoyuki Naito (Osaka, Japan) and Ryota Imai (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: generating, by a deep neural network (DNN) trained using a data set of feature training images for feature learning, sample images in which different objects in a category same as a category of objects captured in the feature training images are captured; inputting the sample images to the DNN; and obtaining, from the DNN, feature vectors of the sampl...