US Patent Issued to Fujitsu on Aug. 25 for "Image classification method and apparatus, and method and apparatus for improving training of an image classifier" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,532, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Fujitsu Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Image classification method and apparatus, and method and apparatus for improving training of an image classifier" was invented by Joseph Townsend (High Wycombe, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image classification method comprises: extracting a logic program from a CNN, trained to classify features in images, which is a symbolic approximation of outputs of kernels at an extraction layer of the CNN; deriving kernel-based classification rules; forward-propagating pairs of feature-labeled images through the logic program to obtain kernel activation...