US Patent Issued to Hitachi on June 30 for "Object recognition apparatus and object recognition method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,608, issued on June 30, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Object recognition apparatus and object recognition method" was invented by Ryo Sakai (Tokyo) and Nobutaka Kimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention comprises: an input unit that enters scene information indicating the state of a prescribed scene in a container that stores an object; a processing unit that, on the basis of the scene information entered into the input unit, sorts objects in the container by size and, on the basis of the number of sorted objects of different sizes, detects objects of sizes that are not acceptable for storage in the ...