US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on Nov. 18 for "Object detection method, object detection device, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,676, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Object detection method, object detection device, and program" was invented by Taiki Sekii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection method includes a key point estimation step of estimating key point candidates for each object in an image; and a detection step of detecting key points for each object based on the estimated key point candidates. Considering an object model that models shape of an object, the key points are points that satisfy a defined condition among points indicating a boundary of the object model that are projected onto defined co...