ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,001, issued on July 7, was assigned to SWOOD Co. LTD. (Gifu, Japan) and GEOCREATES INC. (Tokyo).

"Processing method and storage medium storing program" was invented by Tsukasa Honda (Tokyo) and Takayoshi Osada (Gifu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This information processing device has: an image acquisition unit for acquiring an analysis subject image; an image analysis unit for analyzing the analysis subject image and thereby identifying a texture and a hue in association with each of a plurality of regions in the analysis subject image; a storage unit for storing first analysis data in which a position in a reference space ima...