US Patent Issued to Konica Minolta on March 25 for "Object detection device, object detection method, program, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,617, issued on March 25, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).

"Object detection device, object detection method, program, and recording medium" was invented by Bumpei Toji (Hashima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object position region detection unit of an object detection device detects a position region of an object included in an input image on the basis of a first class definition in which a plurality of classes is defined in advance. A class identification unit identifies a class out of a plurality of classes to which the object belongs on the basis of the first class definition. An object detection result outp...