ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,286, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Feature amount acquisition device, similar image search device, display device, feature amount acquisition method, similar image search method, display method, and program" was invented by Kazuhisa Matsunaga (Fussa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feature amount acquisition device (100) includes an activation level calculator (12) deriving, as an activation level, a level at which, in a CNN classifier (11) including a plurality of layers and configured to, by processing input data based on image data of an input image capturing a first target and a secon...