ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,180, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image recognition method, image recognition apparatus and computer-readable non-transitory recording medium storing image recognition program" was invented by Takuya Miyamoto (Osaka, Japan), Kanako Morimoto (Osaka, Japan), Rui Hamabe (Osaka, Japan), Shiro Kaneko (Osaka, Japan) and Naomichi Higashiyama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feature-amount extraction unit generates a base feature-map group constituted by a plurality of base feature maps from an input image, applies a plurality of statistic calculations to the base feature m...