US Patent Issued to Hitachi High-Tech on Sept. 15 for "Image classification device and image classification method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,023, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image classification device and image classification method" was invented by Sota Komatsu (Tokyo), Masayoshi Ishikawa (Tokyo) and Fumihiro Bekku (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an image classification device and method that are capable of extracting and mapping an important feature in an image. The image classification device includes: a feature extraction unit 101 that generates a first image group generated by applying different noises to the same image among images included in an image group and a second image group including different i...