US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 2 for "Image augmentation apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,475, issued on Sept. 2, 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) performs an image augmentation process on an original training dataset (40) to generate an augmented training dataset (50). The original training dataset (40) includes an original ground-view image (42) and an original aerial-view image (44). The image augmentation process includes a removal process in which partial regions including objects o...