ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,613, issued on March 25, was assigned to HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Electronic device and method for recognizing images based on texture classification" was invented by I-Hua Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chin-Pin Kuo (New Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Chun Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Tzu-Chen Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recognizing different object-categories within images based on texture classification of the different categories, which is implemented in an electronic device, includes extracting texture features from block images segmented from original images accordin...