US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on July 7 for "Impression evaluation of an image based on similarity to a reference image" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,902, issued on July 7, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Impression evaluation of an image based on similarity to a reference image" was invented by Satoru Inoue (Kunitachi, Japan) and Shoichi Uratani (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impression analysis system includes: an input obtainer that receives an evaluation target image; and a hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor: extracts a low-order image feature amount, and a high-order image feature amount, from the evaluation target image, and compares data obtained by extracting a low-order image feature amount and a high-order image feature amount...