US Patent Issued to SCREEN Holdings on July 28 for "Mark detection method and computer program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,542, issued on July 28, was assigned to SCREEN Holdings Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Mark detection method and computer program" was invented by Toshiyuki Okayama (Kyoto, Japan) and Yoshinori Shimada (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding step and an image selection step are performed by a computer 20. In the encoding step, a plurality of partial images D2 of an object are input to a learned VAE model M, and the plurality of partial images D2 are encoded to a plurality of latent variables in a multi-dimensional latent space. In the image selection step, one or more partial images D2 that are likely to include an alignm...