ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,263, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Learning system, object detection system, learning method, and computer program" was invented by Takahiro Toizumi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A learning system includes: an area candidate generation unit that generates an area candidate that is a candidate for an area in which an object is detected from an image; a ground truth area acquisition unit that obtains information about a ground truth area including the object; and a ground truth target generation unit that generates a ground truth target used for learning of an object detection unit that detects the obje...