ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,302, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan) and Umemura Educational Institutions (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image processing device and image processing method" was invented by Shosuke Onishi (Yokohama, Japan) and Manabu Hashimoto (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This image processing device comprises a memory, a communication unit, and a control unit. The memory stores a group of template images including a plurality of images of a detection object. The communication unit acquires an entire image including a matching object. The control unit acquires a representative image based on a part of the group of...