ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,091, issued on April 22, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image classification device and method" was invented by Sota Komatsu (Tokyo), Masayoshi Ishikawa (Tokyo), Fumihiro Bekku (Tokyo) and Takefumi Kakinuma (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The objective of the present invention is to provide an image classification device and a method therefor with which suitable teaching data can be created. An image classification device that carries out image classification using images which are in a class to be classified and include teaching information, and images which are in a class not to be classified and to which te...