US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS, SONY GROUP on Nov. 18 for "Object recognition system and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,672, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan) and SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Object recognition system and electronic apparatus" was invented by Kei Nakagawa (Tokyo) and Katsuhiko Hanzawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object recognition system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes an event detection sensor that detects, as an event, that a change in luminance of a pixel has exceeded a predetermined threshold, and a spiking neural network. The spiking neural network executes recognition processing on an object to be recognized on a basis of a r...