US Patent Issued to Rakuten Group on June 10 for "Information processing apparatus and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,394, issued on June 10, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Hajime Kato (Tokyo), Mitsuru Nakazawa (Tokyo) and Bjorn Stenger (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To analyze images of more diverse graphs at higher speed and accuracy, disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus, comprising: a graph image acquisition unit configured to acquire a graph image; a graph classification unit configured to classify the graph image acquired by graph type; a probability map generation unit configured to generate, from the graph image, a proba...