ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,580, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI (Miyazaki, Japan).
"Weight estimation device and program" was invented by Kikuhito Kawasue (Miyazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a configuration in which an image acquisition unit that acquires an image of an animal, a shape identification unit that identifies a shape of a predetermined portion of the animal from the image, an information generation unit that, on a basis of the shape of the predetermined portion, generates estimation information used for estimating a weight of the animal, and a weight estimation unit that estimates the weight on a basis of the ...