US Patent Issued to Nielsen Consumer on June 2 for "Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus for image recognition based on visual and textual information" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,347, issued on June 2, was assigned to Nielsen Consumer LLC (Chicago).

"Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus for image recognition based on visual and textual information" was invented by Francisco Javier Delgado del Hoyo (Valladolid, Spain), Javier Tovar Velasco (Valladolid, Spain) and Antonio Hurtado (Valladolid, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed that recognize products using visual and textual information. An example apparatus includes classification circuitry to classify object facings detected in a shelf image to determine object candida...