US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on Sept. 15 for "Image recognition device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,910, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Image recognition device" was invented by Takuya Kitade (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Keisuke Yamaya (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Ryosuke Mizuno (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Takuma Matsumura (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image recognition device that can accurately recognize a recognition target is provided. An image recognition device 10 includes an imaging device 100 configured to image one imaging surface (for example, a top surface) of a recognition target T, a mirror unit 10a that is a reflection unit disposed to reflect another imaging surface (for example, a ...