ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,306, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Maxell Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Operation program, operation method, and operation device for image processing" was invented by Atsushi Hanamoto (Tokyo) and Ryuji Imamura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection method with high robustness that can determine a feature of an input image regardless of characteristics of a detected part in the image is provided. An operation program causes a computer to perform a feature quantity acquiring step of acquiring a feature quantity which is extracted from an input image, a reconstruction error calculating step of calculating a reconstruction error...