ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,912, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to JVCKENWOOD Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Image recognition device applying transfer learning to an object recognition model" was invented by Shingo Kida (Yokohama, Japan), Hideki Takehara (Yokohama, Japan) and Yincheng Yang (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object recognition unit recognizes an object in an input image by using an object recognition model. A recognition precision determination unit determines a precision of recognition of the object in the input image. A supervised image conversion unit converts the input image for which the precision of recognition of the object i...