US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Aug. 4 for "Character recognition device and character recognition method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,252, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Character recognition device and character recognition method" was invented by Kentaro Matsumoto (Osaka, Japan), Yuma Saito (Nara, Japan), Daiki Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Rei Hasegawa (Osaka, Japan) and Masashi Yamamoto (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A character recognition device includes a recognizer that recognizes at least one character string from an image including a trailer captured by an imaging device, an attribute determinator that determines an attribute of the character string recognized by the recogn...