ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,529, issued on May 12, was assigned to ANICOM HOLDINGS INC. (Tokyo).
"Character determination system and character determination method" was invented by Tsuguna Inagaki (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Takahashi (Tokyo) and Yoshie Ogoshi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a character determination system and the like which determine a character of an animal with a simple method. The character determination system includes: receiving means which receives an input of an image of an animal; and character determining means which determines, using a trained model, a character of the animal from the imag...