ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,338, issued on March 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"System for updating neural network parameters based on object detection area overlap score" was invented by Shuhei Ogawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus configured to learn objectness of an object in an image includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image, a GT data acquisition unit configured to acquire GT data including at least an object area where an object present in the acquired image is present, an inference unit configured to infer a candidate area for the object in the image and a first score ...