US Patent Issued to HITACHI HIGH-TECH on April 21 for "Image processing device and method, and image processing system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,905, issued on April 21, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device and method, and image processing system" was invented by Yasuki Kakishita (Tokyo), Hideharu Hattori (Tokyo), Yoichiro Suzuki (Tokyo) and Hidetsugu Tanoue (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device includes: an image reception unit for receiving an input image; an image generation unit for generating an image for extracting a feature from the input image; a feature extraction unit for extracting a feature from the generation image generated by the image generation unit; an identification unit for identifying an obj...