US Patent Issued to NEC on July 28 for "Image augmentation apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,490, issued on July 28, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image augmentation apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Royston Rodrigues (Tokyo) and Masahiro Tani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image augmentation apparatus (2000) acquires an original training dataset (40). The original training dataset (40) includes a ground-view image (42) and an original aerial-view image (44). The image augmentation apparatus (2000) performs an image augmentation including a cropping process and a rotation process on the original aerial-view image (44) to generate an augmented aeria...