US Patent Issued to Hitachi on Sept. 15 for "Object recognition device and object recognition method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,010, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Object recognition device and object recognition method" was invented by Ryo Sakai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an object recognition device for detecting an object in an image, with which it is possible to detect, with high accuracy, a target object even in an image that has a background and other objects shown therein. This object recognition device is characterized by comprising: an image acquisition unit which acquires a first image composed of two-dimensional pixels; a three-dimensional shape approximation determination unit which determines wh...