US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on March 31 for "Image and video processing circuitry and method using an image signature" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,091, issued on March 31, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Image and video processing circuitry and method using an image signature" was invented by Lev Markhasin (Stuttgart, Germany), Stephen Tiedemann (Stuttgart, Germany), Stefan Uhlich (Stuttgart, Germany) and Bi Wang (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing circuitry configured to: generate, based on obtained image data, a visual content word sequence indicative for a visual content of an image represented by the obtained image data; and generate, based on the generated visual content word sequence, an image signat...