US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Dec. 2 for "Image processing device and image processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,560, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device and image processing method" was invented by Kenta Suzuki (Tokyo), Tetsutaro Yamada (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Kameda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device includes a detection unit, a feature amount generating unit, a tracking unit, a feature amount change detecting unit, a tracking history extracting unit, and a determination unit, so that when occlusion in a selected cluster has occurred, the image processing device can determine whether or not objects are identical without using data of an image in which the occlu...