US Patent Issued to Rakuten Group on Dec. 30 for "Image inference and verification apparatus, method, and computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,774, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Image inference and verification apparatus, method, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Mitsuru Nakazawa (Tokyo) and Takashi Tomooka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including a receiving section that receives a captured image of a target object, an instruction section that gives a user an instruction on which direction to capture an image of the target object, an inferencing section that performs an inference of an imaging direction on the basis of the received captured image, and a verifying section...