US Patent Issued to NEC on April 14 for "Image processing apparatus, feature map generating apparatus, learning model generation apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,819, issued on April 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, feature map generating apparatus, learning model generation apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Yadong Pan (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a feature map generation unit and a grouping unit. The feature map generation unit generate a first feature map that specifies a horizontal location of the person in an image in a horizontal direction and a second feature map that specifies a vertical location of the person in the image in a vertical direction...