US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on Feb. 17 for "Revision apparatus, recording medium, and design revision method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,278, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Revision apparatus, recording medium, and design revision method" was invented by Natsuko Minegishi (Hachioji, Japan), Shoichi Uratani (Hino, Japan) and Satoru Inoue (Kunitachi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A design revision apparatus includes a hardware processor that: applies, to an input image, attentional property evaluation that evaluates a portion easily attracting visual attention; performs impression evaluation that estimates an impression given by the input image to an observer; and combines a result of the attentional property evaluation with a re...