US Patent Issued to RIKEN on June 30 for "Classification device, classification method, program, and information recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,235, issued on June 30, was assigned to RIKEN (Wako, Japan).

"Classification device, classification method, program, and information recording medium" was invented by Yoichiro Yamamoto (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a classification device to classify an image by identifying, on a photograph on which a target belonging to one of a plurality of groups is captured, a portion that characterizes a single group. An acquirer acquires learning images obtained by dividing a learning photograph, the acquirer associating the learning images with a group to which a learning target captured on the learning photograph bel...