US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 8 for "Device for orthogonal discrimination of tablets aligned in a linear arrangement" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,368, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Device for orthogonal discrimination of tablets aligned in a linear arrangement" was invented by Takuya Ogawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object discrimination device includes an acquisition unit, a binarization unit, a feature extraction unit, and an area computation unit. The acquisition unit acquires an image of an imaging area where objects are aligned in an array from a direction orthogonal to the object alignment direction. The binarization unit generates, from the image, a binarized image of an object area that is an area where the object is present. The ...