US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 9 for "Object detection device, learned model generation method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,378, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Object detection device, learned model generation method, and recording medium" was invented by Katsuhiko Takahashi (Tokyo), Yuichi Nakatani (Tokyo), Tetsuo Inoshita (Tokyo), Asuka Ishii (Tokyo) and Gaku Nakano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an object detection device, the plurality of object detection units output a score indicating a probability that a predetermined object exists for each partial region set with respect to inputted image data. The weight computation unit uses weight computation parameters to compute a weight for each of the plurality of object d...