ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,189, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, information processing method, and information processing apparatus" was invented by Koichi Nihei (Tokyo), Yoshifumi Onishi (Tokyo) and Takanori Iwai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system (1) includes: specifying means (12) for specifying, in accordance with an image-capture situation when an image is captured by an image-capturing apparatus (20) and an item of analysis with regard to the image distributed via a network, a first image quality of an area of a specific part in the image used for the analysis; and ...