US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on Feb. 24 for "Saliency analysis system, saliency analysis method and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,778, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Saliency analysis system, saliency analysis method and recording medium" was invented by Satoru Inoue (Kunitachi, Japan) and Shoichi Uratani (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A saliency analysis system includes: an input receiver that receives an evaluation target image; and a hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor extracts low-order image feature amounts and high-order image feature amounts, from the evaluation target image, and calculates saliencies in the image, based on the low-order image feature amounts and the high-order image feature a...