US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 3 for "Teacher data collecting method and collecting device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,234, issued on March 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Teacher data collecting method and collecting device" was invented by Toshikazu Karube (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A teacher data collecting method in a defect classification model for classifying a defect by using, as teacher data, a few pieces of expert data and many pieces of non-expert data, includes: encoding, into one dimension, a latent variable of a variational auto encoder that has been caused to perform learning the expert data; inputting the non-expert data into the variational auto encoder and encoding a latent variable into one dimension; ca...