US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Sept. 9 for "Data augmentation method, learning device, and recording medium" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,374, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Data augmentation method, learning device, and recording medium" was invented by Shun Ishizaka (Tokyo), Kazuki Kozuka (Osaka, Japan), Sotaro Tsukizawa (Osaka, Japan) and Denis Gudovskiy (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "First optimization processing for optimizing parameters of a DNN and second optimization processing for optimizing hyperpararneters for each sample used in data augmentation processing are alternately performed. The first optimization processing includes causing the DNN to predict a firs...