US Patent Issued to Hitachi on July 14 for "Annotation device and annotation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,574, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Annotation device and annotation method" was invented by Tatsuya Hasebe (Tokyo), Erika Watanabe (Tokyo) and Makoto Onodera (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an annotation device and an annotation method capable of simple and highly accurate annotation. An annotation device for annotation to 3D shape data and implemented using a computer, the annotation device including: an input unit that inputs a 3D CAD model, a text, and label definition information; a calculation unit that generates an annotation data set through annotation processing; a storage unit t...