US Patent Issued to Honda Motor, KEIO UNIVERSITY on March 17 for "Learning apparatus and learning method" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,820, issued on March 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and KEIO UNIVERSITY (Tokyo).

"Learning apparatus and learning method" was invented by Naoki Hosomi (Wako, Japan), Teruhisa Misu (San Jose, Calif.), Shumpei Hatanaka (Yokohama, Japan), Wei Yang (Yokohama, Japan) and Komei Sugiura (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A learning apparatus for performing machine learning includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire teaching data including input data and correct answer data, the input data including an input image that contains a reference object and an input text that relatively designates a target po...