ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,813, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa-ken, Japan).
"Search system and search method" was invented by Yoshitaka Dozen (Atsugi, Japan) and Kunitaka Yamamoto (Atsugi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A search system capable of searching for an image with a similar represented concept is provided. The search system includes an input unit, a text extraction unit, a tag obtaining unit, and a tag similarity calculation unit. When image data to which an image label is assigned and document data including the image label are supplied to the input unit, the text extraction unit is config...