US Patent Issued to Hitachi on Dec. 16 for "Area extraction method and area extraction system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,669, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Area extraction method and area extraction system" was invented by Ziwei Deng (Tokyo), Naoto Akira (Tokyo) and Tomoaki Yoshinaga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An area extraction method includes acquiring a captured image, generating a feature map using the captured image, extracting a candidate bounding box indicating an area in which an object exists in the captured image using the feature map, a segmentation step of generating a mask that is a bounding box indicating the area in which the object exists using the feature map and the candidate bounding box, acquir...