ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,651, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image identification system and image identification method for identifying images based on divided training images" was invented by Sayaka Kurata (Tokyo) and Hailin Wang (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image identification system includes: an image dividing unit which divides training images of a first training data set and assigns a label assigned to a training image from which dividing occurs to the divided training images as tentative labels; a texture index computing unit which computes texture indexes for each of the divided training images; a tentative lab...