ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,870, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to JVCKENWOOD Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Image classification apparatus, image classification method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium having image classification program" was invented by Hideki Takehara (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feature extraction unit extracts a low-resolution general feature vector of an input image and a high-resolution detailed feature vector of the input image. A general feature distance measurement unit maintains a general weight vector of each class and calculates a general distance vector from the general feature vector and the general ...