ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,510, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Learning apparatus, inference apparatus, inference system, learning method, inference method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Hideki Sorakado (Tokyo) and Koichiro Nakamura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus calculates a positive pair similarity between a first feature vector of an image and a second feature vector associated with the same label as a label of the image, calculates a negative pair similarity between the first feature vector and a third feature vector associated with a label different from the label of the ima...