US Patent Issued to Fujitsu, OSAKA UNIVERSITY on April 21 for "Machine learning method and machine learning apparatus for facial image blending" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,920, issued on April 21, was assigned to Fujitsu Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan) and OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Suita, Japan).

"Machine learning method and machine learning apparatus for facial image blending" was invented by Ryosuke Kawamura (Kawasaki, Japan), Noriko Ikemoto Takemura (Suita, Japan) and Hajime Nagahara (Suita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage unit stores therein first inference results respectively corresponding to a plurality of face images, which are output from a first model of outputting a first inference result in response to an input of a face image. A processing unit selects, from the plurality of face images, fi...