ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,363, issued on June 10, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus, method and system for generating models for identifying objects of interest from images" was invented by Anirban Ray (Tokyo), Hideharu Hattori (Tokyo) and Yasuki Kakishita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generating models for identifying objects of interest from images is disclosed. The apparatus includes an input unit that receives input images, an object segmentation unit that receives the input images from the input unit and separates regions of objects of interest from a background region, and a learning unit that learns mo...