US Patent Issued to Konica Minolta on Nov. 25 for "Object detection method and object detection device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,130, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection method of detecting a defined object from an image, includes estimating, on the image, an extreme point area including a boundary feature point that satisfies a criterion related to a boundary of the object."

The patent was filed on Oct. 27, 2020, under Application No. 17/783,266.

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