ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,863, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Korea University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for classifying immoral images using deep learning technology" was invented by Jin Kyu Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Yu Jin Jeong (Seoul, South Korea) and Seong Beom Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an apparatus for classifying immoral images according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprising: a text encoder unit that receives a learning text as an input to create a textual embedding vector; an image encoder unit that receives an image as an input to ...