US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on July 8 for "Apparatus and method for performing image-based dish recognition" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,344, issued on July 8, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Apparatus and method for performing image-based dish recognition" was invented by Zhongchi Luo (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Weimin Xiao (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Linjun Li (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Yafang Jin (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a computer-implemented method for performing image-based dish recognition. The method includes acquiring a first image depicting a dish to be recognized, analyzing the first image using a predictive model to determine a first candidate theme, and acquiring a reference ...