ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,780, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Learning apparatus, learning method, imaging apparatus, signal processing apparatus, and signal processing method" was invented by Akitoshi Isshiki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Keita Ishikawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A learning apparatus according to the present technology includes a learning unit that trains a CNN by using, as training data, a ground truth label prepared for each training image and ground-truth position information indicating a position of a target object in the training image."

The patent was filed on Nov...