US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 6 for "Image analyzer for material structure using Fourier transform and principal component analysis" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,511, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Image analyzer for material structure using Fourier transform and principal component analysis" was invented by Kazuho Saeki (Yokohama, Japan), Hanae Shiratori (Gotenba, Japan) and Masao Yano (Suntou-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For easy visualization of features of an image representing a structure of a material, an image analyzer includes a transformer that performs a Fourier transform on each of a plurality of original images representing a structure of a material and acquires a plurality of power spectra; an analyzer that performs principal c...