ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,963, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Learning apparatus, estimation apparatus, learning method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Jianquan Liu (Tokyo) and Kenta Ishihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a learning apparatus (10) including: an acquisition unit (11) that acquires an image; a similarity computation unit (12) that computes a similarity between the acquired image, and a first image being accumulated in advance and indicating an abnormal state; a registration unit (13) that registers, as a second image indicating a normal state, the acquired image ...