ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,811, issued on April 14.

"Image processing system" was invented by Yusuke Fukushima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portion of a polygon is appropriately extracted from an image. An image processing system 10 including: an input unit 11 that inputs an image including an extraction target; a detection unit 12 that detects a portion of the extraction target from an input image; a convex hull generating unit 13 that generates a convex hull, which is a polygonal, of the detected portion; a vertex reducing unit 14 that acquires a polygon having a preset number of vertices from the convex hull by repeating a vertex reducing proces...