ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,487, issued on July 14, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Image recognition device, method for image recognition device, and recording medium" was invented by Takahiro Hori (Kyoto, Japan) and Ayana Tsuji (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is necessary to input and register the size of an object in advance for each installation environment, which takes time and effort. This image recognition device comprises: an image acquisition unit (11) that acquires an image; a detection unit (12) that detects a detection object from the image; an index creation unit (14) that creates an index for determining whether the de...