US Patent Issued to CANON on July 21 for "Training device, object detection device, training method, object detection method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,682, issued on July 21, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Training device, object detection device, training method, object detection method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Hidetoshi Izawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hayato Shimodaira (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A training device acquires a degree of similarity between a correct answer region indicating a region of an object in an image and each of a plurality of anchor boxes set in advance in an image, selects, among the plurality of anchor boxes, an anchor box for which the degree of similarity is greater than or equal to a pre...