ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,176, issued on April 7, was assigned to RAKUTEN GROUP INC. (Tokyo).
"Image generator and method of image generation" was invented by Hiya Roy (Tokyo), Mitsuru Nakazawa (Tokyo) and Bjorn Stenger (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information-processing device including: a CPU; and a memory storing instructions for causing the information-processing device, when executed by the CPU, to: output an intermediate heatmap for input of an input image by using at least one of a plurality of machine learning models; and generate a heatmap based on an attribute of the input image, which is provided independently of the input i...