ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,289, issued on April 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image accumulation apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Shin Norieda (Tokyo), Hiroo Harada (Tokyo), Haruki Mizutani (Tokyo), Hirotaka Maeshima (Tokyo) and Masami Sakaguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide an image accumulation apparatus, a method, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium capable of extracting a characteristic video based on an individual emotion. An image accumulation apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an image acquisition unit, an expression classification unit,...