US Patent Issued to Affectiva on June 16 for "Deep learning in situ retraining" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,451, issued on June 16, was assigned to Affectiva Inc. (Boston).

"Deep learning in situ retraining" was invented by Panu James Turcot (Pacifica, Calif.) and Seyedmohammad Mavadati (Watertown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Deep learning in situ retraining uses deep learning nodes to provide a human perception state on a user device. A plurality of images including facial data is obtained for human perception state analysis. A server device trains a set of weights on a set of layers for deep learning that implements the analysis, where the training is performed with a first set of training data. A subset of weights is deployed o...