ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,941, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image recognition system" was invented by Toshinori Yamauchi (Tokyo), Masayoshi Ishikawa (Tokyo), Takefumi Kakinuma (Tokyo), Masaki Hasegawa (Tokyo), Kentaro Ohira (Tokyo) and Yasutaka Toyoda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present invention, an image recognition system calculates importance of a feature for each target shape recognized in an image and for each type of feature, and determines correctness of a recognition result by comparing the importance with a statistic for each type of feature, for each target shape."
The patent was...