US Patent Issued to HITACHI SOLUTIONS on Dec. 30 for "Overhead wire recognition device and overhead wire recognition method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,865, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to HITACHI SOLUTIONS LTD. (Tokyo).

"Overhead wire recognition device and overhead wire recognition method" was invented by Kishiko Maruyama (Tokyo) and Nobutaka Kimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overhead wire recognition device and method are capable of overhead wire recognition based on plural images taken by an imaging device such as a digital camera. The overhead wire recognition device includes an input unit to which multi-viewpoint images taken by a camera from different viewpoints and camera positions/attitudes are inputted, an overhead wire candidate extraction unit which sele...