ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,096, issued on July 29, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Teaching student network for end-to-end semi-supervised object detection" was invented by Pankaj Wasnik (Bangalore, India), Naoyuki Onoe (Bangalore, India), Vishal Chudasama (Bangalore, India) and Purbayan Kar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for end-to-end semi-supervised object detection is provided. The system retrieves labeled and unlabeled images from an image dataset and generates an input batch by application of image transformation(s) on the images. The system further generates a first result for each image of the input batc...