US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on July 28 for "Image recognition with a wide area recognition target network that feeds a narrow area recognition target network" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,471, issued on July 28, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image recognition with a wide area recognition target network that feeds a narrow area recognition target network" was invented by Toshihide Horii (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects relate to a processing device for increasing the accuracy of image recognition in a neural network that does not include a fully connected layer. A first processor generates a first feature map by executing processing of a first neural network on a target image. An enlarger enlarges the first feature map. A combiner combines the f...