ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,918, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Artificial satellite and ground system" was invented by Suguru Aoki (Tokyo), Ryuta Satoh (Tokyo) and Itaru Shimizu (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an artificial satellite and a ground system enabling to efficiently hold data in the artificial satellite. The artificial satellite includes an image processing unit that executes feature amount generation processing of generating a feature amount of a captured satellite image, a storage unit that holds feature amount data obtained as a result of the feature amount generation processing, and a commun...